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Date:      Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:17:44 -0400
From:      Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>
To:        "Timms, Simon" <STimms@petro-canada.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crontab root not found
Message-ID:  <3EFC6018.8020403@buddydog.org>
In-Reply-To: <BB28669D4974D311B4A00008C75D1CF90F54C0D5@pcaxs02.pcacorp.net>
References:  <BB28669D4974D311B4A00008C75D1CF90F54C0D5@pcaxs02.pcacorp.net>

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> I seem to be having some trouble with cron.  I edited my crontab file and
> added a line then ran 
> 
> #crontab /etc/crontab
> 
> Now my email box is full of "cron root not found".  Nonsense, I said, I am

I'd say you should post the new line you added to cron. Sounds like
you have the formatting incorrectlying, and it is trying to run a
bogus command called either 'cron' or 'root'.

-- 
Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD blog:
http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog





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