Strange problem 1

Richard Smith rdls at rdls.net
Tue Apr 11 12:35:40 BST 2000


Simon Clayton wrote:
> 
> 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
                                   ^^^^
Looks like it's trying to invoke a program called `root', my crontab
entry looks like:

*/5     *       *       *       *       root	/usr/libexec/atrun

double check the syntax. It might be tabs/spaces type problem if it
`looks' correct.

Richard.




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