From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 9: 3:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B991614C82 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id SAA18772; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:58:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:58:49 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Windsor Match Plate and Tool Ltd." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron difficulties Message-ID: <19990629185849.A14486@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: "Windsor Match Plate and Tool Ltd." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3.0.5.32.19990629110326.007ad1e0@in.mnsi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990629110326.007ad1e0@in.mnsi.net>; from Windsor Match Plate and Tool Ltd. on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 11:03:26AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 11:03:26AM -0400, Windsor Match Plate and Tool Ltd. wrote: > First off, I'd like to thank those of you who responded previously with a > solution, it worked...sorta. Now I'm not getting email as I had been > before, but instead I am getting the following emailed to root, any idea's > as to why? > > > > >N 1 root Tue Jun 29 10:58 18/543 "Cron > root sh /etc/rmpopper > /dev" > & t 1 > Message 1: > root: not found The ``user'' field is only meaningful in the system crontab file (/etc/crontab). As I can see, you're attempting to execute the command from the root's crontab, so the user is already known, right? So, please, remove the word ``root'' from your command and try again. crontab(5) manpage, in particular, says: } The format of a cron command is very much the V7 standard, with a number } of upward-compatible extensions. Each line has five time and date } fields, followed by a user name (with optional ``:'' and ``/'' suffixes) if this is the system crontab file, followed by a } ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ } command. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message