Re: crontab root not found

2003-06-27 Thread Jonathan Arnold
I seem to be having some trouble with cron.  I edited my crontab file and
added a line then ran 

#crontab /etc/crontab

Now my email box is full of cron root not found.  Nonsense, I said, I am
I'd say you should post the new line you added to cron. Sounds like
you have the formatting incorrectlying, and it is trying to run a
bogus command called either 'cron' or 'root'.
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RE: crontab root not found

2003-06-27 Thread Timms, Simon
Sure thing, here is the file.  But the line I added (right at the bottom) is
commented out. BTW I am running 5.1 release.  I also get operator not found
when it tries to run the second entry.


# /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#
#minute hourmdaymonth   wdaywho command
#
*/5 *   *   *   *   root/usr/libexec/atrun
#
# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
*/11*   *   *   *   operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
#
# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
0   *   *   *   *   rootnewsyslog
#
# Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
1   3   *   *   *   rootperiodic daily
15  4   *   *   6   rootperiodic weekly
30  5   1   *   *   rootperiodic monthly
#
# Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to
# UTC time.  See adjkerntz(8) for details.
1,310-5 *   *   *   rootadjkerntz -a

# Run portupgrade
#*  2   *   *   *   root
/usr/local/scripts/cron.portupgrade

-Original Message-
From: Jonathan Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:18 AM
To: Timms, Simon
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Subject: Re: crontab root not found


 I seem to be having some trouble with cron.  I edited my crontab file and
 added a line then ran 
 
 #crontab /etc/crontab
 
 Now my email box is full of cron root not found.  Nonsense, I said, I am

I'd say you should post the new line you added to cron. Sounds like
you have the formatting incorrectlying, and it is trying to run a
bogus command called either 'cron' or 'root'.

-- 
Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD blog:
http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog




 

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Re: crontab root not found

2003-06-27 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Timms, Simon wrote:

 Hi,
 I seem to be having some trouble with cron.  I edited my crontab file and
 added a line then ran

 #crontab /etc/crontab

 Now my email box is full of cron root not found.  Nonsense, I said, I am
 root and I'm right here, I then tried waving my hands so the computer could
 find me more easily.  Then it occurred to me that perhaps the contab file
 was being interpreted as a normal user crontab file and it was trying to run
 the command root as that is what appeared in the 6th column.  So I went
 and read the crontab man page and found that I should run crontab with the
 -u option when using su.  I tried that too and I'm still getting the e-mails
 every 5 minutes.  So what command should I run to load the master crontab?
 I tried

 #crontab -u root crontab

 but that too seems to interpret the crontab as a user crontab too.  I have
 removed any changes I made to the crontab so I won't bother including it in
 the e-mail since it is the default file.

/etc/crontab is not in the same format as a user's personal crontab file
(even root's). You don't need to reinstall /etc/crontab, because cron
will pick this up automatically. If you try, you'll find it
misinterpreting the sixth column (as is happening).

Either: just edit /etc/crontab, or: add a root crontab entry using
crontab -e.


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