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From: Randy Berndt <rberndt@nething.com>
Subject: Crontab Failure (I'm stupid)
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Please ignore the message I sent before (copy below). I did a VERY poor job of
RTFM'ing. My apologies.

>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:05:58
>To: questions@freebsd.org
>From: Randy Berndt <rberndt@nething.com>
>Subject: Crontab Failure
>
>I am getting the following message every 5 minutes:
>
>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 10:05:02 -0600
>From: root@nething_aus.zilker.net (Cron Daemon)
>To: root@nething_aus.zilker.net
>Subject: Cron <root@nething_aus> root	/usr/libexec/atrun
>X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
>X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
>X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
>X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
>X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
>
>root: not found
>
>It apparently thinks the global crontab file is the regular one for a user
>called 'root'. How do I restore it to it's 'system-wide' status.
>
>Thanks
>

Randy Berndt <rberndt@nething.com>
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