Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:34:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Stickney <david@wvb.gomel.by> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab, Uucico question. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961115133133.3704A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611152003.WAA03269@wvb.gomel.by>
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Try to avoid crossposting. questions would have been sufficient. On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, David Stickney wrote: > 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 Don't look at this file directly (as the comment), use crontab(1) instead. What has happened is that the /etc/crontab file has been checked into root's crontab entry. You need to run as root crontab -r to delete root's crontab. The /etc/crontab is a special format in that there is a user field. The regular user crontabs don't have this field. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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