On Thursday 20 May 2004 17:47, Bill Moran wrote: > carvin5string wrote: > > I have a new server set up and running and am getting a slew of > > messages from cron, like this - > > > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > Body: root: not found > > > > and > > > > Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy > > operator: not found > > > > What's going on with cron? > > You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system > crontab. > > The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under > which the job should run. When this field is entered in a user's > crontab, cron interprets it as the command to be run and the errors > you describe generally result. > > Keep in mind that the user "root" has a user crontab that is > different from the system crontab. > > If you're still fuzzy as to what went wrong, reading the man pages > for crontab (in addition to my explanation) should help.
additionally you might want to have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS > good luck. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
