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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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