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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