Strange problem 1

[Brian Somers]

It looks like you're using the format from /etc/crontab in your 
crontab(8) files.

/etc/crontab wants a username in the 6th field, but there shouldn't 
be a ``user'' column in the crontab(8) file.

> I have two different problems which I hope someone out there 
> can help me with.
> 
> Firstly, my FreeBSD 3.2 box has suddenly started complaining
> about atrun.  I have checked the crontab against another
> FreeBSD 3.2 box and it looks fine, I have made sure that
> /root exists and is OK but every five minutes I get a new
> mail like this:
> 
> 	From root Tue Apr 11 08:30:00 2000
> 	Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:30:00 GMT
> 	From: root (Cron Daemon)
> 	To: root
> 	Subject: Cron <root at dev> 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>
> 	
> 	root: not found
> 
> I have tried running atrun on its own with -d and that
> seems to be OK, /var/at/spool and /var/at/jobs both exist.
> 
> What's going on?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Simon Clayton
> Reference Technology Ltd

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