Creating periodic cron jobs
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', 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 -- Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating periodic cron jobs
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]
Re: Creating periodic cron jobs
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 12:05, platanthera wrote: 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 OK, thanks, that seems to have worked, just not informing the system. But now when my script runs in the 'quarter-hourly' directory, I get the following, the script is running fine: mail: illegal option -- a Usage: mail [-EiInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... [- sendmail-options ...] mail [-EiInNv] -f [name] mail [-EiInNv] [-u user] Of course, I'm not getting the mail message that the cron would normally produce. -- Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
