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Subject: Re: Crontab, Uucico question.
To: david@wvb.gomel.by (David Stickney)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:26:38 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199611152003.WAA03269@wvb.gomel.by> from "David Stickney" at Oct 10, 96 02:24:24 pm
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> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Crontab keeps sending me a note ever 5 minutes, saying:
> 
> subj: Cron <root@wvb> root	/usr/libexec/atrun
> root: not found
> 
> I'm thinkin' Hey, Im Root...
> 
> here is what is in my var/cron/tabs/root

			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/etc/crontab installed on Fri Nov 15 20:37:50 1996)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.3.4.1 1996/04/09 21:23:11 scrappy Exp $)
> # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^


> # $Id: crontab,v 1.10.4.2 1996/06/05 20:28:12 nate Exp $
> # From: Id: crontab,v 1.6 1993/05/31 02:03:57 cgd Exp

If this is your /var/cron/tabs/root, it is wrong.  /etc/crontab specifies
both the user name and the command to run.  The user name is implicit for
/var/cron/tabs/root, you need to remove the user name "root" from this
file.

Note: it is probably confusing to have both a /var/cron/tabs/root and an
/etc/crontab.

... JG