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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:37:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
To:        C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz>
Subject:   Re: Cron sends messages to root
Message-ID:  <200003200137.RAA86532@cytosine.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIAEBCCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net> from C J Michaels at "Mar 19, 2000 06:24:43 pm"

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Thanks you guys, that did the trick. While I was root I did
"crontab -r" and everything works perfect now.

--bhishan

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> 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
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