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 [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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