From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 00:24:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA04261 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 00:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA04109 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 00:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA02166; Tue, 21 May 1996 09:21:06 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA15549; Tue, 21 May 1996 09:21:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA09446; Tue, 21 May 1996 08:56:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605210656.IAA09446@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: CRON: it loves me To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 08:56:39 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: edmond@UWYO.EDU (Andrew N. Edmond) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Andrew N. Edmond" at "May 20, 96 11:41:52 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrew N. Edmond wrote: > Subject: Cron 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. ;-)