I am somewhat new to FreeBSD, but not to Unix, Linux, or Servers. I read the directions on here for cron, and it said I could edit the /etc/crontab with my favorite editor and save (logged in as root), and it would recognize the changes automatically. Well it did not.
I found another web page that said to use crontab -e. That did work after I did a crontab -R. I then pasted my entries into the file and did a ctrl-x and saved the thing.
I restarted the cron daemon, and tailed the log, but I am seeing 2 major problems:
1. Orphan (no passwd entry)
2. What appears to be two different time zones in my log!
some of my log...
here is the crontab itself:
I also made sure all scripts can run on their own and have execute permissions etc.
Any help greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Scott Emick
I found another web page that said to use crontab -e. That did work after I did a crontab -R. I then pasted my entries into the file and did a ctrl-x and saved the thing.
I restarted the cron daemon, and tailed the log, but I am seeing 2 major problems:
1. Orphan (no passwd entry)
2. What appears to be two different time zones in my log!
Code:
Mar 11 06:57:00 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[1733]: (tmp.18184) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)
Mar 11 06:57:00 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[1733]: (root) RELOAD (tabs/root)
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: (*system*) PARSE (bad username)
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: login_getclass: unknown class 'optimize1.pl #'
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: (*system*) PARSE (bad username)
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: login_getclass: unknown class 'race_gen1.pl #'
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: (*system*) PARSE (bad username)
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: login_getclass: unknown class 'clean1.pl #'
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: (*system*) PARSE (bad username)
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: login_getclass: unknown class 'update_ship1.pl #'
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: (*system*) PARSE (bad username)
Mar 11 09:58:39 webserver001 /usr/sbin/cron[8314]: (tmp.18184) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)
some of my log...
here is the crontab itself:
Code:
# /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
# edited 03/11/2010
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#
#minute hour mday month wday who command
#
*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun
#
# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
*/11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
#
# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
0 * * * * root newsyslog
#
# Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
1 3 * * * root periodic daily
15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly
30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly
#
# Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to
# UTC time. See adjkerntz(8) for details.
1,31 0-5 * * * root adjkerntz -a
# Feature Update - updates Featured Product db with new releases
0 3 * * * /export/home0/vhost218/tasks/feature_update.pl
# optimize - optimizes database
30 3 * * * /export/home/0/vhost218/tasks/optimize1.pl
# race generate
0 4 * * 1 /export/home0/host218/tasks/race_gen1.pl
# Orders Cleanup - deletes old initiated orders
0 5 1 * * /export/home0/vhost218/tasks/clean1.pl
# Update Shipped Products - updates orders shipped and notifies customer
36 09 * * * /export/home0/vhost218/tasks/update_ship1.pl
Any help greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Scott Emick