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Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3i] cron entry problem



HP,

Here is the mail message I continue to recieve on the hour:

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:01:01 -0700
From: Cron Daemon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Cron <root@www> /home/sites/site2/database/sentinel.pl

/bin/sh: /home/sites/site2/database/sentinel.pl: No such file or directory

I'm pretty sure the cronjob is installed as root also. Here's what I get when doing a "crontab -l":

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.7142 installed on Wed Nov 29 16:45:44 2000)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (something.crontab installed on Fri May 19 13:13:41 2000)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
1 * * * * /home/sites/site2/database/sentinel.pl


I had allready tried a "crontab -e" as root, but the first line that it outputs in edit mode tended to stop me... :

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (something.crontab installed on Fri May 19 13:13:41 2000)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
1 * * * * /home/sites/site2/database/sentinel.pl

Thanks for any further advice you can provide!,

~ Theo


H.P. Stroebel wrote:

Theodore Jones schrieb:

another user.  Since it cannot reach this user, it gets bounced to me
Admin account I think.


is it bounced, or does it arrive there directly ?

is it a root cronjob ? root`s mail is forwarded to the alias "sys", wich
is
the admin account and other adresses you assign in the gui.
I deleted this user's account and now I am not sure how to delete the
crontab entry for this account.  When I do a "crontab -u exampleuser",
it says "user not found" or something to that effect.   How do I go
about finding where this crontab entry was created, what user it is


crontab -l as root to see root`s crontab, and check /etc/crontab, too.

attached to, and how to kill it off?   When I do a "crontab -e" as root,
the text file that the editor program opens says cleary not to edit that
file... ?!


it means that you should not edit it *directly*, but using crontab -e.

"man crontab" ((5), i think) is your friend.