From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 15:24:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weeble.dyndns.org (ubppp248-206.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.248.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5886637B773 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:24:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from shithead (shithead.weeble.dyndns.org [10.0.0.2]) by weeble.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA01210; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:24:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) From: "C J Michaels" To: "Bhishan Hemrajani" Cc: , "Jonathan Chen" Subject: RE: Cron sends messages to root Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:24:43 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <20000320090205.B46254@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On top of that I would suggest putting "root" back into the entries in /etc/crontab. -Chris -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jonathan Chen Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 4:02 PM To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron sends messages to root 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- When all other forms of communication fail, use words To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message