Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:01:53 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Schrodinger <schrodinger@konundrum.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron Message-ID: <20030127040153.GO6137@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <2459.159.134.74.211.1043639597.squirrel@webmail.konundrum.org> References: <2459.159.134.74.211.1043639597.squirrel@webmail.konundrum.org>
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In the last episode (Jan 27), Schrodinger said: > I'm loooking for help with Cron. When cron is running my mailbox starts to > fill up with hundreds of mails from cron and they are all the same: > > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:40:00 GMT > From: root@schro.konundrum.org (Cron Daemon) > To: root@schro.konundrum.org > Subject: Cron <root@schro> root /usr/libexec/atrun > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> > > root: not found > > And in the log file they are full with: > > Jan 22 13:25:00 schro cron[44063]: (root) CMD (atrun) > Jan 22 13:25:00 schro cron[44064]: (root) CMD (root^Iatrun) It looks like you copied the system crontab (/etc/crontab) into root's crontab (/var/cron/tabs/root, usually edited with crontab -e). Don't do this; they are different files and have different formats. The system crontab has an additional field specifying the user that the command is to run as. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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