FC" Cron Error - Newbe Question

[Robert Slade]

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