crontab's output question

[blb]

testuser's probably right as to the source of the error, but before you delete it, see what's in it; what does

sudo crontab -l

say?

[holmBrew]

it says:

[sam:~] holmBrew% sudo crontab -l
Password:
# $NetBSD: crontab,v 1.13 1997/10/26 13:36:31 lukem Exp $
#
# /etc/crontab - root's crontab
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log

#min hour mday month wday user command

# Disabled by default, since it causes disk access every 10 minutes,
# which is useless unless you use at(1). Enable as needed.
#*/10 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun

# do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance
15 3 * * * root sh /etc/daily 2>&1 | tee /var/log/daily.out | mail -s "`hostname` daily output" root
30 4 * * 6 root sh /etc/weekly 2>&1 | tee /var/log/weekly.out | mail -s "`hostname` weekly output" root
30 5 1 * * root sh /etc/monthly 2>&1 | tee /var/log/monthly.out | mail -s "`hostname` monthly output" root

[blb]

That is definitely /etc/crontab (cat /etc/crontab should look just like it), in which case you can delete it,

sudo crontab -r

Now the question is what caused it to get there in the first place?

[holmBrew]

thanks man.

i wish i knew what caused it!

[holmBrew]

well, i don't recall entering that, but who knows.

the:

sudo ctontab -l

fixed the problem. the e-mail this morning was error free.


thanks testuser and blb for all your input and help.