Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:17:15 +0300 From: Anand Buddhdev <arb@anand.org> To: Eugene Sevinian <sevinian@aya.yerphi.am> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab Message-ID: <19990519091715.F75829@africaonline.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990519102635.7356A-100000@aya.yerphi.am>; from Eugene Sevinian on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:41:51AM %2B0400 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990519102635.7356A-100000@aya.yerphi.am>
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On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:41:51AM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: I'm guessing that you're putting this entry in root's personal crontab. There are 2 types of cron tables in FreeBSD, a system-wide cron table, /etc/crontab, and user-specific tables. With the system-wide table, you have to specify a username, under which the program should run. In a personal crontab, there is no need to specify a username. Edit root's personal crontab (crontab -u root -e) and remove the "root" username, and see what happens. > Hello, > Can someone tell me why cron is sending me such messages: > > To: root > Subject: Cron <root@mandela> root /etc/periodic/other/script.pl > 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 > > where script.pl is a trivial perl script like: > --- > #!/usr/bin/perl > print "hello"; > --- -- System Administrator See complete headers for address, homepage and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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