From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 17:36:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE97237B405 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 17:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7451E812E4; Wed, 15 May 2002 10:06:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:06:36 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Eric Dahan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron messages : root: not found Message-ID: <20020515100636.B57801@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020514182628.0418a3a8@ms1.meiway.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020514182628.0418a3a8@ms1.meiway.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 14 May 2002 at 18:30:50 +0200, Eric Dahan wrote: > Hello, > > My cron deaemon keeps sending me e-mails. For every job in > /etc/crontab I get this e-mail: > > Subject: Cron root /etc/postfix/reject_queue/reject_queue.sh > > root: not found > > or: > > subject line: > > Subject: Cron root /usr/libexec/atrun > > root: not found > > I don't get it, but i'm a fraid y FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE can't find the > root user anymore? It worked perfetly for more than 12 months, but > since a few days it gives these mails. This looks as if you have moved a line from /etc/crontab into a user crontab. /etc/crontab has a 6th parameter, the user under which the job should run, which is missing in other crontabs. Just remove 'root' and all should be well. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message