Crontab error mails

[Peter Elsner]

That is the format for the system crontab.  /etc/crontab

root has its own crontab entry (under /root).

user crontabs have a different format then the system crontab.

Remove the root from that line, and it should work.

Peter Elsner


At 09:19 PM 8/20/2003 +0300, you wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>What did I do wrong here; I edited /etc/crontab by adding two lines for 
>execution and I think I even added then syntactically correct. I ran (just 
>like Handbook told to do) crontab /etc/crontab. Now I get emails that say:
>
>Subject: Cron <root at silakka> root       /usr/libexec/atrun
>
>root: not found
>
>root is the user that should run the lines. Here is a line from crontab:
>
># make full backup weekly
>00     4       *       *       7       root    /usr/local/sbin/full_backup
>
>
>I commented out the lines that I added but still I get lines like that...
>
>Any help? Thanks!
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Johan Paul
>
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