Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:05:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message to Root Every 5 Minutes Message-ID: <199606261905.MAA27919@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960626114647.1063A@andrsn.stanford.edu> from "Annelise Anderson" at Jun 26, 96 11:49:47 am
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Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > 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@andrsn> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > > > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > > > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > > > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > > > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> [snip] this is the /etc/crontab. the HOME is fine but it does not match the HOME from the mail message above. check the crontab for root in /var/cron/tabs. > It is set to /var/log--here it is: > > # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD > # > # $Id: crontab,v 1.10 1995/05/27 01:55:21 ache Exp $ > # From: Id: crontab,v 1.6 1993/05/31 02:03:57 cgd Exp > # > SHELL=/bin/sh > PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin > 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
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