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Hi Jim,

What were you trying to add to your crontab? Sounds like you need to edit
it with the "e" switch. You might find this tutorial helpful:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/27/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Cheers,

Dru

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jim McIver wrote:

> Me again... I was following the Compete FreeBsd book along and 
> came to a section that said to type "crontab crontab" to install and run 
> the crontab.
> 
> Now every 5 minutes root gets an email. Something like:
> Cron <root@ns1> root
> From: root
> To: root
> x-cron-env <shell=/bin/sh>
> etc....
> 
> root not found
> 
> I've killed cron to stop the message, but why is it doing this?
> 
> My shell is set to /bin/csh and I've tried changing it back to /bin/sh, 
> (chsh)but the messages just keep coming.
> 
> Only line I can see in the crontab file that's causing this is:
> /5	*	*........root  /usr/libexec/atrun
> 
> I can't seem to come up with enough info on atrun to help, or how to 
> tell Cron-env that the shell is now /bin/csh.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Jim McIver
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