From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 08:17:45 2003 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 DD8FC37B409 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail10.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F49D43FAF for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: (qmail 15936 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 15:17:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buddydog.org) ([66.92.76.225]) (envelope-sender ) by mail10.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Jun 2003 15:17:44 -0000 Message-ID: <3EFC6018.8020403@buddydog.org> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:17:44 -0400 From: Jonathan Arnold User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Timms, Simon" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab root not found 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: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:17:46 -0000 > 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