Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:21:43 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> To: Scott Reber <sreber@atltechgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron -- root: not found Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101110919110.8592-100000@magellan.palisadesys.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010111095950.00b0de10@atltechgroup.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Scott Reber wrote: > I am a running FreeBSD 4.2R system and am quite new at it. > > Last night, I decided to look at the default crontab so I issued > "crontab -u root -e" (I now realize I should have used -l instead) and > there it was. Since I really didn't want to change anything, typed ":" and > then "q!". I then decided I wanted to print the contents of > /etc/periodic/daily" so I typed " cd /etc/periodic/daily" and then "cat * > > dailyfile". / immediately filled up. I deleted dailyfile and reissued the > cat as " cat * > ~/dailyfile" and all was well. > > Well not quite, I am getting an email from cron every five minutes: > _________________________________________________ > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:50:00 -0500 (EST) > Message-Id: <200101110250.f0B2o0500226@a.b.c> > Subject: Cron <root@mimas> 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> > To: root@a.b.c > From: root@a.b.c (Cron Daemon) > X-UIDL: ec9260d669e9fb0937417cdebb909904 > > root: not found > _____________________________________________________ > > Any and all ideas are welcome The system crontab (/etc/crontab) has a different format than per-user crontabs. See the crontab(5) for details. I think you installed the system crontab (/etc/crontab) as root's crontab. If so, use "crontab -u root -r" to revert this problem, and just edit /etc/crontab to make changes. Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Sr. Software Engineer, Palisade Systems --- ghelmer@palisadesys.com http://www.palisadesys.com/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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