Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 10:49:51 +0000 From: Donald <druid@eoe-magical.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Crontab entry Message-ID: <36F37D4F.305BD7B8@eoe-magical.org> References: <Pine.SV4.3.96.990320115458.5247E-200000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> <xzp4sngxe3s.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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it says in Freebsd manual page 156 paragraph two to set it up this way. also on page 3 of 6 line 6 in the Majorcool manual to run this command to update the majordomo list Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> writes: > > On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Donald wrote: > > > 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * root /usr/majordomo/wrapper > > > mj_key_cache 2>&1 | sendmail root > > Take out the root - the crontab is associated with the user that created > > it. See man crontab(1), man crontab(5) for additional info. > > Bzzt - his error was trying to run it through crontab. The "root" part > is correct. You should both read the cron(8) man page and especially > what it says about /etc/crontab. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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