From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 11 13:43:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647B837B400 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:43:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2BLhgG89343; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:43:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:43:47 -0700 Subject: Re: crontab and mysql From: Ian To: Bob Kersten , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <001e01c1c942$d5f25ea0$0200000a@alpha> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message