From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 07:17:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA22627 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 07:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flint.cyweb.com (root@cyweb.com [209.83.135.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22622 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 07:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry@visiontm.com) Received: from hp.harry.com (dial-44.r05.scbuft.InfoAve.Net [207.144.97.244]) by flint.cyweb.com (8.8.0/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA27744; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 09:27:07 -0500 From: "Harry Patterson" To: "freebsd-questions" , "stephen farrell" Subject: Re: crontab problems Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 10:15:05 -0400 Message-ID: <01bd609d$3b380160$f46190cf@hp.harry.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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... I've read and re-read the man pages and can't find the distinction between root's crontab and /etc/crontab (user level differences are obvious with the user field removed) . I assumed that the only way to change the "system" crontab was to edit it as root and perform a "crontab crontab" as root. Is there a different way? How does the system crontab take effect and how do you change it? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Harry Patterson ----------------------------------------------------- Vision Technology Management Web Presence, On-Line Malls, & Business Cards FREE E-Mail Technology Newsletter >(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? > > >-- > >Steve Farrell > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message