Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:39:39 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Marcel Dijk <nascar24@home.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root: not found Message-ID: <20020110013939.D2105@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <03e901c199b8$3432ef30$0200a8c0@testuser>; from nascar24@home.nl on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:21:28AM %2B0100 References: <03e901c199b8$3432ef30$0200a8c0@testuser>
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:21:28AM +0100, Marcel Dijk wrote:
> 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@hostname> root newsyslog
>
> root: not found
>
> or:
>
> subject line:
>
> Cron <root@hostname> 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.
Sounds like you are using the /etc/crontab file format for a user's
crontab(1).
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