Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:49:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message to Root Every 5 Minutes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960626114647.1063A@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606261828.LAA25994@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > I'm getting the following message sent every five minutes--it ends > > up in /var/mail/root: > > > > > > >From daemon Wed Jun 26 08:10:01 1996 > > Received: (from root@localhost) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA00596; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:10:01 -0700 (PDT) > > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:10:01 -0700 (PDT) > > Message-Id: <199606261510.IAA00596@andrsn.stanford.edu> > > From: root (Cron Daemon) > > To: root > > Subject: Cron <root@andrsn> 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 > > > > I must have something set wrong--any ideas? > > hello annelise, > looks like your /etc/crontab has an error. it should look > like this: > > [snip] > # > #minute hour mday month wday who command > # > */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun > [snip] > > the HOME enviroment variable is set to "HOME=/root" > should be "HOME=/var/log" > > jmb It is set to /var/log--here it is: # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD # # $Id: crontab,v 1.10 1995/05/27 01:55:21 ache Exp $ # From: Id: crontab,v 1.6 1993/05/31 02:03:57 cgd Exp # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log # #minute hour mday month wday who command # */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun # # rotate log files every hour, if necessary #0 * * * * root /usr/bin/newsyslog # # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance 0 2 * * * root /etc/daily 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 3 * * 6 root /etc/weekly 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 5 1 * * root /etc/monthly 2>&1 | sendmail root # # time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock, # does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock. # See adjkerntz(8) for details. 1,31 0-4 * * * root /sbin/adjkerntz -a Not exactly a custom crontab, is it? Annelise
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