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Date:      Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:48:37 -0500
From:      Mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com>
To:        Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cron problems, II - :)
Message-ID:  <3ABF9D15.72CB6ADE@ocsinternet.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103261401530.20598-100000@babel.acu.edu>

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crontab -r  (as root) then leave /etc/crontab alone...;)

Cary wrote:

> Sorry, I problably should have attached my crontab also! Stupid me.
> Thanks to Chris Smith for pointing this out to me.
>
> --------/etc/crontab---------------------------------------
> # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
> #
> # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.21.2.3 2000/12/08 10:56:07 obrien 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
> 1       3       *       *       *       root    periodic daily
> 15      4       *       *       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
> # start ntpd on startup
> @reboot                                 root    /usr/local/bin/ntpd
>
> ---------------EOF------------------------------------
> Cary Mathews
>
> Abilene Christian University
> ACM Education Committee
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:25:10 -0600 (CST)
> From: Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu>
> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: cron problems
>
> I get the following email every five minutes and I don't know why.
> Obviously something is wrong, but I don't know how to identify it.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:05:00 -0600 (CST)
> From: root (Cron Daemon)
> To: root
> Subject: Cron <root@fledermaus> root /usr/libexec/atrun
>
> root: not found
>
> -------------End Message--------------
>
> Here is what I've done so far:
> 1) read the man pages for cron(8), crontab(5), cron(1), atrun(8) and
> at(1), I have not found any thing to help me with this error.
> 2) checked if I have /usr/libexec/atrun as an actual file, I do, and it is
> executable
> 3) compared my /etc/crontab entry against the atrun(8) man page, and they
> are the same.
> 4) I've tried deleting the "root" in the /etc/crontab entry to see if the
> "root: not found" was cron trying to run root as the command. That did not
> work either.
> 5) I'm getting this same message for newsyslog and adkerntz -a also! But
> atrun fills up the fastest.
>
> Having my root mailbox fill up so quickly is annoying at the least, but
> downright frustrating when I cannot understand why. If anyone has any
> clarifications or help to offer, I am all ears.  Thank you so much!
>
> Cary
>
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