Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:18:20 +0200 (EET) From: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron error messages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990217001522.12544A-100000@ady.warpnet.ro> In-Reply-To: <36C87203.BCFA5D36@glue.umd.edu>
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Hi, On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > I updated my crontab file so that it runs CVSup on saturdays and now I'm > constantly getting these two messages from Cron Daemon. Its flooding my mailbox > and getting very annoying. Help! > > Thanks, > Brandon > > From: root@cerberus.student.umd.edu (Cron Daemon) > To: root@cerberus.student.umd.edu > Subject: Cron <root@cerberus> root newsyslog > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> > > root: not found [...] > and this is my /etc/crontab file > > 118 2:12pm/etc#cat /etc/crontab > # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD > # [...] > 30 3 * * 6 root periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail > root > 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail > root ^^^^^^^ -> here's your problem, the line was probably broken up into 2 lines (by the editor you used ?) so the "root" keyword is misinterpreted... > 30 2 * * * root ./extract-updates # 2>&1 | sendm > ail root Hope it helps, Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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