From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 8:58:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6601E37B51E for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA84370; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:58:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhishan) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200003191658.IAA84370@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: Cron sends messages to root In-Reply-To: <200003190700.XAA82965@cytosine.dhs.org> from Cron Daemon at "Mar 18, 2000 11:00:01 pm" To: Cron Daemon Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:58:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am still getting this from Cron even though I removed root for the entries in /etc/crontab. After I edited them, I HUPed Cron, and I still received the message. The subject of the message was:Cron root newsyslog These are my old entries in /etc/crontab: SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log 0 * * * * root newsyslog 1,31 0-5 * * * root adjkerntz -a These are my new entries that someone on the list said would fix my problem: SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log 0 * * * * newsyslog 1,31 0-5 * * * adjkerntz -a Please help. --bhishan > root: not found > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message