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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:52:45 +0100
From:      Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com>
To:        Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Crontab not working logwatch.pl [FreeBSD 8 stable]
Message-ID:  <4B4E329D.4090806@lazlarlyricon.com>
In-Reply-To: <beaf3aa51001131243u44e86685g1abc4bb367dad93e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <beaf3aa51001131243u44e86685g1abc4bb367dad93e@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2010-01-13 21:43, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Im having probs when a root crontab located on /var/cron/tabs/root
>
> with this content
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.DUtgfVoBT0 installed on Wed Jan 13 20:08:29 2010)
> # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v
> 1.31.2.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $)
> * * * * * ~/.profile ; /bin/bash /var/log/auto_auth.sh
> * * * * * ~/.profile ; /usr/bin/perl /local/sbin/logwatch.pl
>
> both of them are sending logs to my email, when runned from the
> command line works, but not from crontab
> any ideas?
>

The keywords here are
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.

Either edit the system crontab, /etc/crontab, or, to edit root's 
crontab, run crontab -e as root.



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