Problems with cron after upgrade

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Feb 5 13:37:14 PST 2004


In the last episode (Feb 05), Tom Jensen said:
> Hi,
>  
> After I upgraded my 5.2-Current this morning to latest source I get error
> mails from cron containing info like this
>  
> Cron <root at bart> root /usr/libexec/atrun
> root: not found
>  
> and
>  
> Cron <root at bart> operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> operator: not found

Sounds like your /etc/crontab got moved into root's crontab?  The
system crontab has an extra "user" field that per-user crontabs don't
have.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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