Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:29:04 -0500 From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble-shooting Cron Problems FreeBSD5.4 Message-ID: <200610311229.04796.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <200610311808.k9VI8Zgb031668@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200610311808.k9VI8Zgb031668@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:08, Martin McCormick wrote: > After building a new FreeBSD5.4 system, I have done > something bad to it. > > When cron runs jobs in /etc/crontab as operator, it seems > as if that 6TH field in /etc/crontab is being interpreted as a > command rather than the user ID it is supposed to run under. I > keep getting messages like: > > From: operator@system.domainname (Cron Daemon) > Subject: Cron <operator@system> root newsyslog > > > root: not found > > > Comparing this system with another properly-functioning > 5.4 system has, as of yet, shown nothing unusual. If I become > root and manually run the job in question, it runs without a > complaint. > > The crontab file on the problem system is an exact copy > of the crontab file on the working system. Both crons appear to > be running with the same flags as in > > 465 ?? Ss 3:24.39 /usr/sbin/cron -s > > Any suggestions as to what I should look at next? Both > systems' crons are showing the same environments if I make them > run the env command. Many thanks. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list Martin, Post the offending line or even all of /etc/crontab lane
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