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. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ "Impact of vulnerability: Run code of an attacker's choice Maximum Severity Rating: Moderate" -- M$ security bulletin _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
