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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!news.Stanford.EDU!not-for-mail From: extant@leland.Stanford.EDU (Hussein Kanji) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Crontab problem Date: 19 Dec 1995 16:13:45 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4b7kfp$5hq@elaine40.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: elaine40.stanford.edu I'm running FreeBSD 2.1. How many columns is crontab supposed to be six columns or seven columns? Someone told me I shoudl eliminate the who column in my crontab (below) Do you know what could be causing me to get teh following message root: not found for the atrun entry in crontab, the adjkerntz entry and some of the web entries? In other words, does anyone have any idea what is going on? # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD # # crontab,v 1.10 1995/05/27 01:55:21 ache Exp # From: Id: crontab,v 1.6 1993/05/31 02:03:57 cgd Exp # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log # #minute hour mday month wday who command # */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun # # rotate log files every hour, if necessary #0 * * * * root /usr/bin/newsyslog # # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance 0 2 * * * root /etc/daily 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 3 * * 6 root /etc/weekly 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 5 1 * * root /etc/monthly 2>&1 | sendmail root 0 */4 * * * root /etc/web 2>&1 | sendmail root # # time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock, # does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock. # See adjkerntz(8) for details. 1,31 0-4 * * * root /sbin/adjkerntz -a -- Hussein Kanji Symbolic Systems/History major The Stanford Daily Stanford University letters@daily.stanford.edu vivid studios extant@leland.stanford.edu hussein@vivid.com