Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:28:28 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: "S. Kyle Korndoerfer" <Solitude@mail.isc.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron Message-ID: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9908310926060.25673-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <37CAE0CD.B3345B39@urmc.rochester.edu>
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, S. Kyle Korndoerfer wrote:
> Ok, I'm running FreeBSD3.1-RELEASE #2
>
> I added a line to /etc/crontab in the proper format as described by the
> man pages that would restart Apache every night at 1:30am. Now I get a
> mail message from cron every time one of the events listed in
> /etc/crontab attempts to run that reads:
>
> root: not found
You've added a bad crontab for root. ie not /etc/crontab, but a
crontab for that happens to be the the same as /etc/crontab's content.
To fix your problem, as root:
crontab -r
Jonathan Chen
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