Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:43:47 -0700 From: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: Bob Kersten <bob@fellownet.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: crontab and mysql Message-ID: <B8B27323.AFAF%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <001e01c1c942$d5f25ea0$0200000a@alpha>
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> My Crontab file seems to be corrupt. I keep on getting e-mail
> messages for user root with the line "root: not found" in it. And it
> does this with all the entries in the /etc/crontab file. It's the
> crontab file for the user root (/etc/crontab). I've edited this file
> and installed it with "crontab crontab" while logged in as root. As of
> that point, all entries (even the ones i didn't alter) don't work
> anymore. I've included my crontab file at the bottom of this message,
> but I don't think you'll find errors in there. There must be something
> else wrong, but what?
The crontab format for per-user crontabs differs from the format for
/etc/crontab, in that the username ("who") column should not appear in the
per-user crontabs. Thus it's interpretting "root" in each row as the name
of the program to run.
-- Ian
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