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Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu> types:
> 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.

What you haven't done is searched the FAQ, which has an entry titled
"Why do I keep getting messages like ``root: not found'' after editing
my crontab file?" at <URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS >.

	<mike

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