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Date:      Fri, 5 May 2000 11:34:00 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
To:        "Jonathan Chen" <Jonathan.Chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: "bad day_of_the_month" (yes really !!!) cron questions
Message-ID:  <01aa01bfb632$612c3390$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
References:  <018e01bfb62c$58481b00$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000505131420.A798@jonc.itouch.co.nz>
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Thanks Jonathan

> There's root's crontab, and then there's the system's crontab. On a
> fresh install, there are no crontabs for root; but there is a system
> crontab in /etc/crontab.

OK .... so far so good

> The format for the personal crontab vs the system crontab differs. The
> system has an extra run-as-user field.

OK .... that shouldn't be a problem since the job I have in mind doesn't
need to be messed with by users ... as long as I can configure it remotely
thats all I need
>
> > I then tried running "crontab crontab", but that just told me
> > "crontab":0: bad day_of_month
> > crontab: errors in crontab file, can't install
>
> This tends to indicate an error in your crontab file format. If you
> send it to the list, betcha we can find out what it is.

attached hereto ...... nothing peculiar I can see, and I did try running the
commands on a few different machines too, some 3.2 & some 4.0, exactly same
response every time


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