Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:52:11 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron error messages Message-ID: <19990215215211.A688@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <36C87203.BCFA5D36@glue.umd.edu> References: <36C87203.BCFA5D36@glue.umd.edu>
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Brandon Fosdick wrote: > I updated my crontab file so that it runs CVSup on saturdays and > now I'm constantly getting these two messages from Cron Daemon. Its > flooding my mailbox and getting very annoying. Help! > > > From: root@cerberus.student.umd.edu (Cron Daemon) > To: root@cerberus.student.umd.edu > Subject: Cron <root@cerberus> root newsyslog > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> > > root: not found That's the sort of error I saw when I blindly copied /etc/crontab to /var/cron/tabs/root, have you done something similar, accidentally? Files under /var/cron/tabs have a different format, RTFM (crontab(5) I think) for details. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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