Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:24:43 -0500 From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: "Bhishan Hemrajani" <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jonathan Chen" <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> Subject: RE: Cron sends messages to root Message-ID: <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIAEBCCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net> In-Reply-To: <20000320090205.B46254@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz>
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On top of that I would suggest putting "root" back into the entries in
/etc/crontab.
-Chris
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jonathan Chen
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 4:02 PM
To: Bhishan Hemrajani
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cron sends messages to root
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 08:58:53AM -0800, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote:
> I am still getting this from Cron even though
> I removed root for the entries in /etc/crontab.
Wrong place.
[...]
>
> > root: not found
> >
>
This is being generated from root's *personal* crontab file, and not
the system's crontab in /etc/crontab.
As root, "crontab -l" will list out root's crontab, crontab -e to
edit, crontab -r to remove.
Jonathan Chen
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