Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:36:07 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Rich Wilson <rwilson@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron error 'root: not found' Message-ID: <19981112213607.A12737@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9811121950.A14731-0100000@gvpl>; from "Rich Wilson" on Thu Nov 12 19:06:51 GMT 1998 References: <Pine.3.87.9811121950.A14731-0100000@gvpl>
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In the last episode (Nov 12), Rich Wilson said:
> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE on two machines. On one of them, I'm
> now getting cron error messages to root every time cron tries to run a
> job. For example, every 5 minutes, I get one for the atrun command:
> ----------
> >From daemon Thu Nov 12 19:10:00 1998
> Subject: Cron <root@spider> root /usr/libexec/atrun
>
> root: not found
>
> -----
> I havn't changed my root account in any way (that is, it's still there of
> course).
>
> I also havn't changed root's cron file. It still has:
> */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun
This shouldn't be in root's crontab. It should be in the system
crontab, /etc/crontab. They have slightly different formats.
man 5 crontab says:
The format of a cron command is very much the V7 standard, with a
number of upward-compatible extensions. Each line has five time
and date fields, followed by a user name (with optional
``:<group>'' and ``/<login-class>'' suffixes) if this is the
system crontab file, followed by a command.
It sounds like you copied the system crontab into root's crontab.
-Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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