I reinstalled my crontab (with crontab -e) after a user edited the crontab directly and nothing appears to be working now. The mails I get suggest that it's trying to find 'root' and 'operator' as programs. Would somebody kindly help me recover from this copilot error? I can't find anything in crontab(5) or cron(8). My procedure was to invoke crontab -e (getting a blank emacs editor window), split the window, opening a copy of the /etc/crontab copied the contents into the temporary crontab save and exit kill -1 1 these are the e-mails I'm getting Subject: Cron <root@dragonfire> root /usr/libexec/atrun root: not found TIA! Don Wilde
On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:> Formats for /etc/crontab & user-specific crontabs are different; the > former contains a field for the user under whose auspices the command > should be run, while the latter does not (as it's implied by the owner > of the crontab in question). > > Peace, > davidThanks for taking the time to answer, David. Yes, I see that. I'm reinstalling the old /etc/crontab back into /etc/crontab. This is what's driving me nuts. Why would it be acting as though it's a user crontab? %D
On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:43:01AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: > > ... > > Thanks for taking the time to answer, David. > > Sure thing. > > > Yes, I see that. I'm reinstalling the old /etc/crontab back into > > /etc/crontab. > > OK. > > > This is what's driving me nuts. Why would it be acting as though it's > > a user crontab? > > I doubt that it is -- more likely, a copy of /etc/crontab was installed > as a "user crontab" -- go check /var/cron/tabs. >Yes, it did exactly that. Will removing the /var/cron/tabs entry make everything Just Work again?