From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 4 16:00:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25150 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 16:00:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25075 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 15:59:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA28327; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 17:59:24 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA00333; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 17:59:19 -0600 (CST) To: Harry Patterson , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: crontab problems References: From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 04 Apr 1998 18:59:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: Andrew's message of "Sun, 5 Apr 1998 09:27:24 +1000 (EST)" Message-ID: <87emzdf8a1.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (hopeI got the attribution right?) > > I am having trouble with cron. I have Freebsd 2.2.5. The daily, weekly and > > monthly processes work fine, but several days ago I started to get error > > message in root's mail (see below) stating "root: not found" whenever it > > tries to run atrun or newsyslog. I've included a sample from the cron log > > file, the crontab file itself and the mail message. The atrun and newsyslog > > files are in the directories that the crontab file is pointing to. It's the > > root crontab file, so I don't think it's a rights issue. I'm at a loss as to > > what it's trying to tell me and how to fix it. > > > > Could someone point me in the right direction? The format for root's crontab and /etc/crontab are different. in particular, the /etc/crontab file needs to list who the process runs as (e.g., root). Sounds like you're using the format for /etc/crontab in root's crontab entry... -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message