Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:20:58 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron problems Message-ID: <15039.49354.832672.972588@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <97515108@toto.iv>
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Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu> types: > I get the following email every five minutes and I don't know why. > Obviously something is wrong, but I don't know how to identify it. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:05:00 -0600 (CST) > From: root (Cron Daemon) > To: root > Subject: Cron <root@fledermaus> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > root: not found > > -------------End Message-------------- > > Here is what I've done so far: > 1) read the man pages for cron(8), crontab(5), cron(1), atrun(8) and > at(1), I have not found any thing to help me with this error. > 2) checked if I have /usr/libexec/atrun as an actual file, I do, and it is > executable > 3) compared my /etc/crontab entry against the atrun(8) man page, and they > are the same. > 4) I've tried deleting the "root" in the /etc/crontab entry to see if the > "root: not found" was cron trying to run root as the command. That did not > work either. > 5) I'm getting this same message for newsyslog and adkerntz -a also! But > atrun fills up the fastest. What you haven't done is searched the FAQ, which has an entry titled "Why do I keep getting messages like ``root: not found'' after editing my crontab file?" at <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS >. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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