Creating periodic cron jobs

[platanthera]

On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:51, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as
> follows in /etc/crontab:
>
> 05 0,6,12,18     *     *     *     root  periodic quarter-daily
>
> I created the /etc/periodic/quarter-daily directory and placed my script
> there. After I ran 'crontab -u root /etc/crontab', 

have a look at 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS

> now I am getting 
> these mail messages below, it seems I have created, for example, cron
> jobs as 'root /usr/libexec/atrun' in addition to the usual
> '/usr/libexec/atrun'. It has done this for daily, weekly, etc. as well.
> Can someone tell me what I did wrong?
>
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> From: root at esmtp.webtent.net (Cron Daemon)
> To: root at esmtp.webtent.net
> Subject: Cron <root at esmtp> root /usr/libexec/atrun
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> Message-Id: <20040513154501.053C8EBD24 at esmtp.webtent.net>
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
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> root: not found