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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Message to Root Every 5 Minutes
To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:05:50 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960626114647.1063A@andrsn.stanford.edu> from "Annelise Anderson" at Jun 26, 96 11:49:47 am
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Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> 
> > Annelise Anderson wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm getting the following message sent every five minutes--it ends
> > > up in /var/mail/root:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >From daemon Wed Jun 26 08:10:01 1996
> > > Received: (from root@localhost) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA00596; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:10:01 -0700 (PDT)
> > > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:10:01 -0700 (PDT)
> > > Message-Id: <199606261510.IAA00596@andrsn.stanford.edu>
> > > From: root (Cron Daemon)
> > > To: root
> > > Subject: Cron <root@andrsn> root	/usr/libexec/atrun
> > > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> > > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> > > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> > > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> > > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>


[snip]

	this is the /etc/crontab.  the HOME is fine but it does not
	match the HOME from the mail message above.  check the crontab
	for root in /var/cron/tabs.  

> It is set to /var/log--here it is:
> 
> # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
> #
> # $Id: crontab,v 1.10 1995/05/27 01:55:21 ache Exp $
> # From: Id: crontab,v 1.6 1993/05/31 02:03:57 cgd Exp
> #
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
> HOME=/var/log

jmb
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