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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:02:05 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz>
To:        Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cron sends messages to root
Message-ID:  <20000320090205.B46254@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <200003191658.IAA84370@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 08:58:53AM -0800
References:  <200003190700.XAA82965@cytosine.dhs.org> <200003191658.IAA84370@cytosine.dhs.org>

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On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 08:58:53AM -0800, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote:

> I am still getting this from Cron even though
> I removed root for the entries in /etc/crontab.

Wrong place.

[...]
> 
> > root: not found
> > 
> 

This is being generated from root's *personal* crontab file, and not
the system's crontab in /etc/crontab.

As root, "crontab -l" will list out root's crontab, crontab -e to
edit, crontab -r to remove.

Jonathan Chen
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