From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 14:31:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997AB158B6 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA26084; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:28:28 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:28:28 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: "S. Kyle Korndoerfer" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron In-Reply-To: <37CAE0CD.B3345B39@urmc.rochester.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message