Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:57:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message to Root Every 5 Minutes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960626125047.227A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0uYzb6-000607C@main.statsci.com>
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On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Scott Blachowicz wrote: > Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> 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> > > > > root: not found > > > > I must have something set wrong--any ideas? > > Looks like you got an entry from /etc/crontab into root's cron file in the > spool area. The spool area cron files don't have a username as item right > before the command but /etc/crontab does. You probably want to do a > 'crontab -e' to edit the spool area cron file to remove the "root"...or > remove that line altogether since it might already be in /etc/crontab. I found /var/cron/tabs/root, which is apparently the "real" file. I took out a line I'd added, using crontab to edit and reinstall, and rebooted, but this does not help. This is the only file in that directory. I can't find any "spool area" cron files. Annelise
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