From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 4:10:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl [130.89.203.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F266637B405 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 04:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 60C4F1F34; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:10:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:10:34 +0100 From: Rogier Steehouder To: Leland Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CRON problem Message-ID: <20011031131034.A67531@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: Rogier Steehouder , Leland , questions@freebsd.org References: <3BDE4C5C.65994DD6@bulinfo.net> <153104901840.20011031010222@mindspring.com> <001201c161f1$ac406b00$d7012104@vz.dsl.genuity.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001201c161f1$ac406b00$d7012104@vz.dsl.genuity.net>; from lsp3@gte.net on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:51:53AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31-10-2001 01:51 (-0800), Leland wrote: > Cron at the specified sends the following message and the script which is > not run. > #this is username crontab > # > # > #min hour mday month wday who command > 1 0 * * * username /usr/home/downeyca/cgi/today.pl > 1 1 * * * username /usr/home/downeyca/.script/tomorrow.pl The username field is only for the systemwide /etc/crontab. Personal crontabs are run as the user and do not accept this field. The error is that cron tries to run the command 'username', which does not exist. With kind regards, Rogier Steehouder -- ___ _ -O_\ // | / Rogier Steehouder //\ / \ r.j.s@gmx.net // \ <---------------------- 25m ----------------------> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message