From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 11:46:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA26817 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com ([198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA26808 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0uYzb6-000607C; Wed, 26 Jun 96 11:45 PDT Message-Id: To: Annelise Anderson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message to Root Every 5 Minutes References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:10:16 -0700." Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:45:51 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz 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? Looks like you got an entry from /etc/crontab into root's cron file in the spool area. The spool area cron files don't have a username as item right before the command but /etc/crontab does. You probably want to do a 'crontab -e' to edit the spool area cron file to remove the "root"...or remove that line altogether since it might already be in /etc/crontab. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org