Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:29:53 +0200 From: Matthew West <mwest@uct.ac.za> To: Jaco Engelbrecht <bje@wcape.school.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron <root@sunitra> root /usr/libexec/atrun Message-ID: <19990827202953.A6195@apotheosis.za.org> In-Reply-To: <01a901bef0b7$fcae8610$0898a8c0@noc.didgeridoo.za.net>; from "Jaco Engelbrecht" on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:14:17PM References: <01a901bef0b7$fcae8610$0898a8c0@noc.didgeridoo.za.net>
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On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:14:17PM +0200, Jaco Engelbrecht wrote: > Hey! > > I'm getting thousands of msg's from Cron Deamon that says: > > Subject : Cron <root@sunitra> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > "root: not found" > > Any suggestions? I've tried putting back a brand new crontab file in /etc, > and still won't work. I'm running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE on a P133 Intel > machine. Exim, Squid, Apache (PHP3) & MRTG is running on there.... > > Any help would be appreciated ;-) It looks like cron thinks you're trying to run the command: "root /usr/libexec/atrun" I suspect you've probably copied lines from /etc/crontab into root's crontab (ala crontab -e). The system crontab file (/etc/crontab) is different to "user" crontabs in that it takes an extra field before the command. This field contains the user which the command will run as. "atrun" (the at job scheduler) should only really be running from /etc/crontab. As root, run "crontab -e" and remove the line containing "atrun". -- mwest@uct.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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