Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:02:26 +0300 (EEST) From: "Johan Paul" <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab error mails Message-ID: <1159.193.166.135.194.1061449346.squirrel@silakka.nettikala.fi> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030820132603.011a9d68@mail.servplex.com> References: <3F43BBB5.4070707@johanpaul.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030820132603.011a9d68@mail.servplex.com>
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Hi! > That is the format for the system crontab. /etc/crontab > > root has its own crontab entry (under /root). > > user crontabs have a different format then the system crontab. > > Remove the root from that line, and it should work. I was just wondering because the default installation of crontab has the following comment line in /etc/crontab: # #minute hour mday month wday who command # ...and the entries that I found there had 'root' under the 'who' column. I haven't edited the crontab-file before yesterday when I added my two lines. But having said this I removed 'root' under the 'who' column and now it seems to work nicely again. Why is there the 'who' column in the system default crontab or what crontab file did crontab read before I ran 'crontab /etc/crontab' since the format of that crontab file seems to be incorrect? Thanks! > > Peter Elsner -- Johan Paul > > > At 09:19 PM 8/20/2003 +0300, you wrote: >>Hi all! >> >>What did I do wrong here; I edited /etc/crontab by adding two lines for >>execution and I think I even added then syntactically correct. I ran >> (just >>like Handbook told to do) crontab /etc/crontab. Now I get emails that >> say: >> >>Subject: Cron <root@silakka> root /usr/libexec/atrun >> >>root: not found >> >>root is the user that should run the lines. Here is a line from crontab: >> >># make full backup weekly >>00 4 * * 7 root >> /usr/local/sbin/full_backup >> >> >>I commented out the lines that I added but still I get lines like that... >> >>Any help? Thanks! >> >> >>Regards, >> >>Johan Paul >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> > Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) > 1835 S. Carrier Parkway > Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 > (972) 263-2080 - Voice > (972) 263-2082 - Fax > (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone > >
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