Date: 21 Aug 2003 10:53:37 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: "Johan Paul" <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab error mails Message-ID: <44lltnkqoe.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1159.193.166.135.194.1061449346.squirrel@silakka.nettikala.fi> References: <3F43BBB5.4070707@johanpaul.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030820132603.011a9d68@mail.servplex.com> <1159.193.166.135.194.1061449346.squirrel@silakka.nettikala.fi>
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please. top-post, Dont "Johan Paul" <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> writes: > > That is the format for the system crontab. /etc/crontab > > > > root has its own crontab entry (under /root). > > > > user crontabs have a different format then the system crontab. > > > > Remove the root from that line, and it should work. > > I was just wondering because the default installation of crontab has the > following comment line in /etc/crontab: > > # > #minute hour mday month wday who command > # > > ...and the entries that I found there had 'root' under the 'who' column. I > haven't edited the crontab-file before yesterday when I added my two > lines. You didn't add them to /etc/crontab. > But having said this I removed 'root' under the 'who' column and now it > seems to work nicely again. Why is there the 'who' column in the system > default crontab or what crontab file did crontab read before I ran > 'crontab /etc/crontab' since the format of that crontab file seems to be > incorrect? You edited your *user* crontab. Maybe the user crontab for "root", but not /etc/crontab. User crontabs have exactly the same format as /etc/crontab *except* for the user column (because they assume the user, naturally enough). For more information, you could see the FAQ entry on exactly this subject. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS
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