New crontab not running

[Matthew Seaman]

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Mark Ovens wrote:

> I added a new cron several days ago - using ``crontab -e'' - to run
> portsnap every night at 3am but it has never run and I can't work out w=
hy.
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> /etc{148}# crontab -l
> # Update ports tree
> 0 3 * * * root /usr/sbin/portsnap cron
            ^^^^

That's the problem.  You don't need the username in that sort of crontab,=

and unless you've got an executable called root, that isn't going to do
anything.

It's only the crontab in /etc/crontab that has a username per line.  The =

crontabs from /var/cron/tabs already belong to particular users, so don't=

need that information inside them as well.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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