Re: cron message
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:01:36PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:59:13 +0100
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > What crontab file contains 'root /etc/cron.daily/leafnode'? The extra
> > username parameter ('root') is only supposed to go in /etc/crontab, not
> > other crontab files.
>
> Thanks. I can only see /etc/crontab.
>
> There is a /etc/news/crontab, but that doesn't contain a reference to
> root.
The only other places I can think of where you might look are
/etc/cron.* and /var/spool/cron/crontabs (the latter being controlled by
crontab(1)).
If it's in none of those, I'm out of ideas. Could you post /etc/crontab?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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