Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:07:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message to Root Every 5 Minutes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960626150317.593A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.94.960626155210.25242A-100000@alpha.dsu.edu>
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> > /etc/crontab is not meant to be installed via crontab(1) - it is special > in two ways: it is automatically read by cron and it has a different > format than individual user crontab files. If you have used crontab(1) to > install /etc/crontab as root's crontab, you will get the message you > mentioned above each time cron tries to run one of the commands because > /etc/crontab is not in the same format as an individual user's crontab > (see the man page for crontab(5) for details of the format on an > individual user's crontab). Well, there's only one crontab binary. And /etc/crontab is in a format identical to my old /etc/crontab in 2.0.5 (this is 2.1-STABLE) except for $id in a comment line. > > So, if you make a change to /etc/crontab, *don't* use crontab(1) to put > /etc/crontab into /var/cron/tabs. If you have done this, you can use > "crontab -u root -r" to remove the installed copy (/var/cron/tabs/root) of > /etc/crontab. I'm desperate enough to try anything right now. Thanks. Annelise > > It's confusing behavior... > > Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu > >
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