From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 1:39:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6614737B41A for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:39:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.142.21.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.142.21] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16ObgU-0001U3-00; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:39:43 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0A9ddc09304; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:39:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:39:39 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Marcel Dijk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root: not found Message-ID: <20020110013939.D2105@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <03e901c199b8$3432ef30$0200a8c0@testuser> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <03e901c199b8$3432ef30$0200a8c0@testuser>; from nascar24@home.nl on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:21:28AM +0100 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 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 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. Sounds like you are using the /etc/crontab file format for a user's crontab(1). -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message