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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:14:11 -0500
From:      Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Cron error messages
Message-ID:  <36C87203.BCFA5D36@glue.umd.edu>

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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!

Thanks,
Brandon

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

next message...

From: root@cerberus.student.umd.edu (Cron Daemon)
To: root@cerberus.student.umd.edu
Subject: Cron <root@cerberus> root    /usr/libexec/atrun
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

and this is my /etc/crontab file

118 2:12pm/etc#cat /etc/crontab
# /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
#
# $Id: crontab,v 1.18 1998/03/30 09:17:25 ache Exp $
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#
#minute hour    mday    month   wday    who     command
#
*/5     *       *       *       *       root    /usr/libexec/atrun
#
# rotate log files every hour, if necessary
0       *       *       *       *       root    newsyslog
#
# do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance
0       2       *       *       *       root    periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail r
oot
30      3       *       *       6       root    periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail
root
30      5       1       *       *       root    periodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail
 root
30      2       *       *       *       root    ./extract-updates # 2>&1 | sendm
ail root
#
# time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock,
# does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock.
# See adjkerntz(8) for details.
1,31    0-5     *       *       *       root    adjkerntz -a 


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"In life there are those who steer, and those who push"
"I'm not impatient, the world is too slow"
"Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse"

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