On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 23:43, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 14:15, Robert Slade wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 12:27, Markku Kolkka wrote: > > > Robert Slade kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 25. syyskuuta 2004 09:57): > > > > My Crontab looks like this: > > > > > > Which crontab is this really? _Your_ crontab (the one created by running > > > "crontab -e") or the file /etc/crontab? The syntax for these files is different. > > > > It is the root crontab, all I have done is edited it with crontab -e (as > > root) to add the run-tasks. > > > > As I told you earlier, (and as Markku has also indicated) these lines > are inconsistent. > > You cannot have lines in a users crontab that has the user name > included. > > Please investigate and if this is the case you can delete everything > above your > > > # run-tasks > > > 0 2 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet -l /var/log/clam-update.log > > > 0 3 * * * /var/qmail/bin/qmailstats 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null > lines and the problem should be solved. > Thanks you and all the others that replied. Yes that has solved the problem. Rob
