On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:51, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as > follows in /etc/crontab: > > 05 0,6,12,18 * * * root periodic quarter-daily > > I created the /etc/periodic/quarter-daily directory and placed my script > there. After I ran 'crontab -u root /etc/crontab',
have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS > now I am getting > these mail messages below, it seems I have created, for example, cron > jobs as 'root /usr/libexec/atrun' in addition to the usual > '/usr/libexec/atrun'. It has done this for daily, weekly, etc. as well. > Can someone tell me what I did wrong? > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from esmtp.webtent.net ([unix socket]) by esmtp.webtent.net > (Cyrus v2.1.16) with LMTP; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 > X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 > Received: from localhost (localhost.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) by > esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway) > with ESMTP > id 2734CEBD26 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 13 May 2004 > 11:45:01 -0400 > (EDT) > Received: from esmtp.webtent.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost > (esmtp.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with > ESMTP id > 22701-08 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 > -0400 (EDT) > Received: by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail > Gateway, from userid 0) id 053C8EBD24; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 > -0400 (EDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root /usr/libexec/atrun > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 (EDT) > X-Virus-Scanned: by the WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway > X-Evolution-Source: imap://admin;[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > root: not found _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
