From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 08:57:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A988E16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 08:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp07.web.de [217.72.192.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AE743D39 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 08:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from platanthera@web.de) Received: from [217.225.248.186] (helo=liza.hacienda.herti) by smtp.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (WEB.DE 4.101 #91) id 1BOIa2-000285-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 17:57:07 +0200 From: platanthera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:05:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1084463494.2480.92.camel@columbus> In-Reply-To: <1084463494.2480.92.camel@columbus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405131805.13058.platanthera@web.de> Sender: platanthera@web.de Subject: Re: Creating periodic cron jobs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:57:09 -0000 On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:51, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as > follows in /etc/crontab: > > 05 0,6,12,18 * * * root periodic quarter-daily > > I created the /etc/periodic/quarter-daily directory and placed my script > there. After I ran 'crontab -u root /etc/crontab', have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS > now I am getting > these mail messages below, it seems I have created, for example, cron > jobs as 'root /usr/libexec/atrun' in addition to the usual > '/usr/libexec/atrun'. It has done this for daily, weekly, etc. as well. > Can someone tell me what I did wrong? > > Return-Path: > Received: from esmtp.webtent.net ([unix socket]) by esmtp.webtent.net > (Cyrus v2.1.16) with LMTP; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 > X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 > Received: from localhost (localhost.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) by > esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway) > with ESMTP > id 2734CEBD26 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 > 11:45:01 -0400 > (EDT) > Received: from esmtp.webtent.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost > (esmtp.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with > ESMTP id > 22701-08 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 > -0400 (EDT) > Received: by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail > Gateway, from userid 0) id 053C8EBD24; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 > -0400 (EDT) > From: root@esmtp.webtent.net (Cron Daemon) > To: root@esmtp.webtent.net > Subject: Cron root /usr/libexec/atrun > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > Message-Id: <20040513154501.053C8EBD24@esmtp.webtent.net> > Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 (EDT) > X-Virus-Scanned: by the WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway > X-Evolution-Source: imap://admin;auth=CRAM-MD5@esmtp.webtent.net/ > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > root: not found