Re: Cron reporting root command not found

What crontab is it in? if you do a crontab -l    is it there? or is it in 
the /etc/crontab?

Cron.daily will want a user to run the command, I.E:
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly

Above root is the user to run the command, run-parts is the command and 
/etc/cron.hourly is the option to the run-parts command.
However if you used crontab -e to edit the crontab, the crontab file will 
be in /var/spool/cron/    (Unix style)...  This crontab does not want the 
user. it uses a user before the command. It manages a crontab per user... 
I.E.:
[root@linux201 cron]# pwd
/var/spool/cron
[root@linux201 cron]# ls -l
total 8
-rw-------    1 root     root           54 Aug 29  2006 root
[root@linux201 cron]# cat root
00 5 * * * /root/dr/dr.backup.ksh

Hope this helps,
David Knight






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I keep on getting this mail sent by logcheck about cron

From:  (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Subject: Cron <root@> root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Status: O

/bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found

I don' t really understand why cron is mailing this to root?

Can anyone help me why cron is complaining to root about line 1 and how
do I correct?





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