Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:53:54 -0500 From: Randy Berndt <rberndt@nething.com> To: "Andrew N. Edmond" <edmond@UWYO.EDU>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Cron Loves Me Message-ID: <2.2.16.19960521105252.264755cc@nething.com>
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>I am getting from my cron daemon (every FIVE minutes!), the following >message: > > From root@shaman.lycaeum.org Mon May 20 23:37:44 1996 > Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 23:35:00 -0600 (MDT) > From: Cron Daemon <root@shaman.lycaeum.org> > To: root@shaman.lycaeum.org > Subject: Cron <root@shaman> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > root: not found > >which, in the tradition of UNIX, is pretty vague. Speaking from PAINFUL personal experience: You have somehow gotten the 'atrun' line from the SYSTEM cron file (stored in /etc/crontab) inserted into roots PERSONAL cron file (by doing 'crontab -e' as root probably). The system file has an additional parameter after the 5th field, the user to run as. Each persons file only runs as themselves, so they don't need the user parameter. To modify SYSTEM tasks, just edit /etc/crontab. The systems sees the modification time change (I think that's the trigger), and reloads the data. Randy Berndt <rberndt@nething.com> ---------------------------------- AOS/VS, FreeBSD, DOS: I'm caught in a maze of twisty little command interpreters, all different.
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