Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:45:51 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message to Root Every 5 Minutes Message-ID: <m0uYzb6-000607C@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:10:16 -0700." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960626110659.932A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960626110659.932A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> 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?
Looks like you got an entry from /etc/crontab into root's cron file in the
spool area. The spool area cron files don't have a username as item right
before the command but /etc/crontab does. You probably want to do a
'crontab -e' to edit the spool area cron file to remove the "root"...or
remove that line altogether since it might already be in /etc/crontab.
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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