From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 13 14:53:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455E916A420 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:53:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: from bart.milos.co.za (bart.milos.co.za [196.38.18.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550B813C481 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:53:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: (qmail 665 invoked by uid 89); 13 Sep 2007 14:53:05 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.2.0 ppid: 659, pid: 661, t: 2.6524s scanners: attach: 1.2.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:44/d:4232 Received: from unknown (HELO claylaptop) (clay@milos.za.net@84.203.141.221) by bart.milos.co.za with ESMTPA; 13 Sep 2007 14:53:02 -0000 Message-ID: <002f01c7f615$c6fbdf10$dd8dcb54@claylaptop> From: "Clayton Milos" To: References: <20070912120015.3113216A4E7@hub.freebsd.org><20070912130050.GB6327@wjv.com> <46E91014.2080908@zer0.net> <20070913122648.GA18092@wjv.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:54:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Subject: Re: problems with 'periodic' in 4.11 p-24 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:53:10 -0000 > On or about Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:25 , while attempting a > Zarathustra emulation Luke Hollins thus spake: > >> Can you post your crontab? Maybe one line has the username twice . > > Boy - that was the hint that helped me find the problem. > > How I did this I do not know, but the /etc/crontab was > duplicated in /var/cron/tabs/root. > > That was why the 'root: not found' message occured as the > normal cron doesn't use that. > > I still don't know how I did this - particularly after admining > FreeBSD systems since 1995. > > Maybe I did it in my sleep. > > But thanks for the comment as that put me on the correct track. > > Bill >> I have done strange things sysadmining under the influence of alcohol. Once I even changed my BIOS password under the influence and it took me half an hour to figure out what I set it to. I know it can be reset with a jumper but the hangover was suppressing that possibility too ;-) -Clay