Strange problem 1

[Brian Somers]

> 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

Which is correct for /etc/crontab, but not for crontab(1).

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

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