From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 21:37:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blockhead.mincom.com (blockhead2.mincom.com [203.15.57.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7427153C3 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:37:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philh@mincom.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by blockhead.mincom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA30438; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:41:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from philh@mincom.com) Received: from porthole.mincom.oz.au(172.17.100.2) via SMTP by blockhead.mincom.oz.au, id smtpdJ30433; Fri Jan 21 13:41:13 2000 Received: (from philh@localhost) by porthole.mincom.oz.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/mincom) id NAA27311; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:41:12 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from philh) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:41:12 +1000 From: Phil Homewood To: James Halstead Cc: "questions @FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: crond Message-ID: <20000121134111.R32425@mincom.com> References: <016101bf63b0$4a2cb0e0$64c8d9d1@jameshal> <20000121114426.P32425@mincom.com> <019e01bf63b6$ad93b740$64c8d9d1@jameshal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <019e01bf63b6$ad93b740$64c8d9d1@jameshal>; from James Halstead on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 09:24:41PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Halstead wrote: > Phil homewood wrote: > > > You ran "crontab /etc/crontab". Don't do that. > > I don't think I have ever executed that command, but it is possible. Anyway, > how can I fix the problem? crontab -r /etc/crontab is a system-wide thing; it differs in format from the per-user crontabs. Either edit /etc/crontab and leave it be, or use crontab to edit a per-user crontab file. Don't combine the two. -- This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. The contents of this email are the opinion of the writer and are not endorsed by Mincom Ltd unless expressly stated otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message