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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:25:47 -0500
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
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To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc: Ben Calvert <ben@stonehenge-net.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cron help?
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This looks like something I've seen before. It appears that you've got a
user crontab with the system crontab format. A user crontab doesn't
include the "who" like ("root" in this case) because it always runs as
the user who owns it.
Search around and see if you've got any other crontabs around that might
contain the same data as this one. It's possible (especially if you're
new) that you edited the crontab for a normal user as well.

-Bill

Mike Meyer wrote:
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> Ben Calvert <ben@stonehenge-net.com> types:
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> > i just set up a new /etc/crontab (see below) yesterday and have been
> > getting this every 5 minutes since. the weird thing is that the atrun
> > line wasn't modified at all, i just added a script to run cvsup at 3 pm
> > every day...
> >
> > this is my first time trying to set up cron, so i'm sure there's
> > something really obvious i'm doing wrong...

> > root: not found

> > # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
> > #
> > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.21.2.1 2000/09/20 02:32:51 jkh 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    newsyslog
> > #
> > # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance
> > 59    1       *       *       *       root    periodic daily
> > 30    3       *       *       6       root    periodic weekly
> > 30    5       1       *       *       root    periodic monthly
> > #
> > # time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock,
> > # does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock.
> > # See adjkerntz(8) for details.
> > 1,31  0-5     *       *       *       root    adjkerntz -a
> >
> > # cair specifics:  get run cvsup every night
> > 05    15      *       *       *       root    /root/bin/dailysup
> >

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