On Thu, 13 May 2004 15:46:50 -0500, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Yes it is an error. >You seem to be trying to create a crontab for a user that does not exist >in the passwd file. "crontab -e" tries to create a crontab for the >logged in user. Look in /var/spool/cron to see what users have crontabs, >as well as checking those with /etc/passwd for validity. > >Cron expects each user who has an *individual* crontab file to be in >/etc/passwd. If your user does not have an account on the local machine >this may happen. > >"crontab -e" edits or creates a crontab file for the current user and if >that user does not have a local account it fails. It also fails if users >are not permitted to create crontab entries but AFAIK with a different >message. Thanks. I found and deleted these files in /var/spool/cron -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 28 22:52 tmp.15574 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root sdstern 0 Apr 28 10:42 tmp.24677 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root sdstern 0 May 12 08:35 tmp.26673 I don't know how they got there, but I'll keep an eye on it for a while. -- Steve
