From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 13:29:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA08850 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:29:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com ([198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08842 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0uZ1Cp-0005zyC; Wed, 26 Jun 96 13:28 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 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 12:57:37 -0700." Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:28:55 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Annelise Anderson wrote: > I found /var/cron/tabs/root, which is apparently the "real" file. I > took out a line I'd added, using crontab to edit and reinstall, and > rebooted, but this does not help. This is the only file in that directory. > I can't find any "spool area" cron files. The /var/cron/tabs/ directory is what I meant by "spool area" - on some systems that directory is called /var/spool/cron/... or /usr/spool/cron/... 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