Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:17:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Rudi Opperman <rudi@askas.co.za> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: help with cron and crontab mail messages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904211216050.27954-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <371DB989.99A129BE@askas.co.za>
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Rudi Opperman wrote: > hi > > I am trying to limit the messages that crontab sends to a user about > jobs run under cron. The situation is : > I am trying to customise cron to run some afterhours tasks. It seems > that you just add the tasks in the specified users crontab file and load > it. This is quite simple and works well. However these jobs need to > run as root. I checked root's loaded crontab and it was empty - so i > added to jobs to /etc/crontab and loaded it. I then recieved mail every > five minutes from > > */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun Did you read the messages? I bet you're getting messages like: root: not found If you installed this as root's user crontab using 'crontab -u root file', then you wiffed the syntax. Take the user argument out; of COURSE you want to run them as root! /etc/crontab and the root user's crontab are different! Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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