Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 08:56:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: edmond@UWYO.EDU (Andrew N. Edmond) Subject: Re: CRON: it loves me Message-ID: <199605210656.IAA09446@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.91.960520233948.31853C-100000@PLAINS.UWYO.EDU> from "Andrew N. Edmond" at "May 20, 96 11:41:52 pm"
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As Andrew N. Edmond wrote: > Subject: Cron <root@shaman> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > root: not found > > which, in the tradition of UNIX, is pretty vague. History preceding this > symptom: > 2) Edit /etc/crontab with pico (wasn't aware of the crontab -e utility). > Realized my mistake, and copied the original /etc/crontab from the > FreeBSD Live Filesystem CDROM (CD number two from Walnut Creek) over the > corrupted /etc/crontab The legacy /etc/crontab and the user's crontabs have different formats, the former taking an additional `user' field. This is explained in the man pages. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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