Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:08:57 -0600 From: "Timms, Simon" <STimms@petro-canada.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: crontab root not found Message-ID: <BB28669D4974D311B4A00008C75D1CF90F54C0D5@pcaxs02.pcacorp.net>
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Hi,
I seem to be having some trouble with cron. I edited my crontab file =
and
added a line then ran=20
#crontab /etc/crontab
Now my email box is full of "cron root not found". Nonsense, I said, I =
am
root and I'm right here, I then tried waving my hands so the computer =
could
find me more easily. Then it occurred to me that perhaps the contab =
file
was being interpreted as a normal user crontab file and it was trying =
to run
the command "root" as that is what appeared in the 6th column. So I =
went
and read the crontab man page and found that I should run crontab with =
the
-u option when using su. I tried that too and I'm still getting the =
e-mails
every 5 minutes. So what command should I run to load the master =
crontab?
I tried=20
#crontab -u root crontab=20
but that too seems to interpret the crontab as a user crontab too. I =
have
removed any changes I made to the crontab so I won't bother including =
it in
the e-mail since it is the default file. =20
Thank you kindly,
Simon
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