From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 16 14:22:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (unknown [194.102.224.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DE011123 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:18:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA12771; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:18:21 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:18:20 +0200 (EET) From: Adrian Penisoara To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron error messages In-Reply-To: <36C87203.BCFA5D36@glue.umd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 newsyslog > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > > 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