Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:27:18 -0500 From: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> To: Johan Paul <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crontab error mails Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030820132603.011a9d68@mail.servplex.com> In-Reply-To: <3F43BBB5.4070707@johanpaul.com>
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That is the format for the system crontab. /etc/crontab root has its own crontab entry (under /root). user crontabs have a different format then the system crontab. Remove the root from that line, and it should work. Peter Elsner At 09:19 PM 8/20/2003 +0300, you wrote: >Hi all! > >What did I do wrong here; I edited /etc/crontab by adding two lines for >execution and I think I even added then syntactically correct. I ran (just >like Handbook told to do) crontab /etc/crontab. Now I get emails that say: > >Subject: Cron <root@silakka> root /usr/libexec/atrun > >root: not found > >root is the user that should run the lines. Here is a line from crontab: > ># make full backup weekly >00 4 * * 7 root /usr/local/sbin/full_backup > > >I commented out the lines that I added but still I get lines like that... > >Any help? Thanks! > > >Regards, > >Johan Paul > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone
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