From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 20 9:41:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.nift.net (unknown [207.212.29.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C729914E20 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 09:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from druid@eoe-magical.org) Received: from eoe-magical.org ([207.212.29.157]) by nebula.nift.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA04054; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:10:39 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36F37D4F.305BD7B8@eoe-magical.org> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 10:49:51 +0000 From: Donald X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Eric Wayte , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Crontab entry References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG it says in Freebsd manual page 156 paragraph two to set it up this way. also on page 3 of 6 line 6 in the Majorcool manual to run this command to update the majordomo list Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Eric Wayte 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