From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 13:35:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18100 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:35:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18074 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:35:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA03721; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:34:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:34:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: David Stickney cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab, Uucico question. In-Reply-To: <199611152003.WAA03269@wvb.gomel.by> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 /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