Date: 20 Mar 1999 18:31:03 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> Cc: Donald <druid@eoe-magical.org>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Crontab entry Message-ID: <xzp4sngxe3s.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Eric Wayte's message of "Sat, 20 Mar 1999 11:59:01 -0500 (EST)" References: <Pine.SV4.3.96.990320115458.5247E-200000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
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Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> writes: > On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Donald wrote: > > 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * root /usr/majordomo/wrapper > > mj_key_cache 2>&1 | sendmail root > Take out the root - the crontab is associated with the user that created > it. See man crontab(1), man crontab(5) for additional info. Bzzt - his error was trying to run it through crontab. The "root" part is correct. You should both read the cron(8) man page and especially what it says about /etc/crontab. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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