From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 11:27:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56C816A4BF for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spxgate.servplex.com (ip66-105-58-82.z58-105-66.customer.algx.net [66.105.58.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EAB43FDD for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Received: from peter.servplex.com ([192.168.0.96]) by spxgate.servplex.com (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h7KIbQ4C049632; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:37:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030820132603.011a9d68@mail.servplex.com> X-Sender: peter@mail.servplex.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:27:18 -0500 To: Johan Paul From: Peter Elsner In-Reply-To: <3F43BBB5.4070707@johanpaul.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crontab error mails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:27:03 -0000 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 /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 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