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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:59:22 -0400
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: crontab error
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In response to "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org>:

> In my crontab the following:
> 
> @reboot /usr/local/sbin/ataidle -I 5 0 0
> 
> gives me:
> 
> cron: login_getclass unknown class 'ataidle'
> 
> on reboot.  What am I missing?

My guess is that you put that line in /etc/crontab, thus the format isn't
correct.

See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-cron.html

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Bill Moran
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