From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 1:21:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.home.nl (mail3.home.nl [213.51.129.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A1837B416 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:21:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from testuser ([213.51.195.75]) by mail3.home.nl (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20020110092035.FMXD20320.mail3.home.nl@testuser> for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:20:35 +0100 Message-ID: <03e901c199b8$3432ef30$0200a8c0@testuser> From: "Marcel Dijk" To: Subject: root: not found Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:21:28 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Disposition-Notification-To: "Marcel Dijk" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, My cron deaemon keeps sending me strange e-mails. For every job in /etc/crontab I get this e-mail: Subject line: Cron root newsyslog root: not found or: subject line: Cron root ntpdate ntp.utwente.nl root: not found I don't get it, but i'm a fraid y FreeBSD 4.2 system can't find the root user anymore? It worked perfetly fot months, but since a few days it gives these mails. Please helkp me out because this puzzles me and makes me nervous too. Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message