cron abuse
I reinstalled my crontab (with crontab -e) after a user edited the crontab directly and nothing appears to be working now. The mails I get suggest that it's trying to find 'root' and 'operator' as programs. Would somebody kindly help me recover from this copilot error? I can't find anything in crontab(5) or cron(8). My procedure was to invoke crontab -e (getting a blank emacs editor window), split the window, opening a copy of the /etc/crontab copied the contents into the temporary crontab save and exit kill -1 1 these are the e-mails I'm getting Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun root: not found TIA! Don Wilde ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron abuse
On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Formats for /etc/crontab user-specific crontabs are different; the former contains a field for the user under whose auspices the command should be run, while the latter does not (as it's implied by the owner of the crontab in question). Peace, david Thanks for taking the time to answer, David. Yes, I see that. I'm reinstalling the old /etc/crontab back into /etc/crontab. This is what's driving me nuts. Why would it be acting as though it's a user crontab? %D ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron abuse
On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:43:01AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: ... Thanks for taking the time to answer, David. Sure thing. Yes, I see that. I'm reinstalling the old /etc/crontab back into /etc/crontab. OK. This is what's driving me nuts. Why would it be acting as though it's a user crontab? I doubt that it is -- more likely, a copy of /etc/crontab was installed as a user crontab -- go check /var/cron/tabs. Yes, it did exactly that. Will removing the /var/cron/tabs entry make everything Just Work again? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron abuse
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:57:44AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:43:01AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: ... Thanks for taking the time to answer, David. Sure thing. Yes, I see that. I'm reinstalling the old /etc/crontab back into /etc/crontab. OK. This is what's driving me nuts. Why would it be acting as though it's a user crontab? I doubt that it is -- more likely, a copy of /etc/crontab was installed as a user crontab -- go check /var/cron/tabs. Yes, it did exactly that. Will removing the /var/cron/tabs entry make everything Just Work again? Yes or run crontab -e and delete everything in the editor window before saving. One good thing about your problem is it reminded me I'd forgotten to MFC the anti foot shooting measure I added a while back which causes crontab to refuse to load /etc/crontab as a user crontab. It doesn't try very hard, but it does prevent the most common error. -- Brooks pgpdwkRsQA33T.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cron abuse
One good thing about your problem is it reminded me I'd forgotten to MFC the anti foot shooting measure I added a while back which causes crontab to refuse to load /etc/crontab as a user crontab. It doesn't try very hard, but it does prevent the most common error. -- Brooks Which is what happened here. :) It never ceases to amaze me how rich a world FreeBSD is, and there's always more to learn. Many tanks of beer to all who added suggestions. The root crontab was indeed saved by my actions as /var/cron/tabs/root, and it was that which was complaining vociferously. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
