From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 11:28:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA26000 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA25994; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:28:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199606261828.LAA25994@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Message to Root Every 5 Minutes To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Annelise Anderson" at Jun 26, 96 11:10:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Annelise Anderson wrote: > > I'm getting the following message sent every five minutes--it ends > up in /var/mail/root: > > > >From daemon Wed Jun 26 08:10:01 1996 > Received: (from root@localhost) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA00596; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:10:01 -0700 (PDT) > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:10:01 -0700 (PDT) > Message-Id: <199606261510.IAA00596@andrsn.stanford.edu> > From: root (Cron Daemon) > To: root > Subject: Cron root /usr/libexec/atrun > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > > root: not found > > I must have something set wrong--any ideas? hello annelise, looks like your /etc/crontab has an error. it should look like this: [snip] # #minute hour mday month wday who command # */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun [snip] the HOME enviroment variable is set to "HOME=/root" should be "HOME=/var/log" jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB