From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 3:12:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from askas.co.za (unknown [196.7.216.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54946151AA for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 03:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rudi@askas.co.za) Received: from askas.co.za(mirror[196.7.216.244]) (1452 bytes) by askas.co.za via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:31:03 +0200 (SAST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #1 built 1998-Mar-22) Message-ID: <371EF55C.F7F3262A@askas.co.za> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:09:32 +0200 From: Rudi Opperman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: help with cron and crontab mail messages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: ...[snip]... > Did you read the messages? I bet you're getting messages like: > > root: not found Yes, this is exactly what happened. I have however attempted to fix the problem. I have removed my additional jobs from /etc/crontab and adding them to root's crontab (/var/cron/tab/root i think) "via crontab -e" whilst logged in as root. (ie not by editing the file directly) However i still get the above message - what does it mean - and why are the jobs not running? After all, they did when i added them (incorrectly) to /etc/crontab and then did "crontab -u root /etc/crontab". Should i instead add them to /etc/crontab and bring them up, as root, via "crontab /etc/crontab" ? help rudi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message