Re: [gentoo-user] Cron problem

[Uwe Thiem]

On 24 April 2006 06:08, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
> For the last few days I have had a cron problem.  It started when I was
> trying to to find a way to modify the crontab by a script.  Don't know
> what I did but ever since, every cron script (root's only) emails me a
> notice like the following:
>
> ===========================================================
> From root@×××××××××.localdomain  Fri Apr 17 23:50:01 2006
> X-Original-To: root
> From: root@×××××××××.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
> To: root@×××××××××.localdomain
> Subject: Cron <root@hilary> root        test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
> /usr/sbin/run-crons
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> Date: Fri,  7 Apr 2006 23:50:01 -0500 (CDT)
>
> /bin/bash: root: command not found
> ===========================================================
>
> Interestingly, all the scripts run fine.  It's just that I get emails
> every ten minutes (the frequency of the "test -x /usr...") and it's
> driving me crazy.
>
> Can't figure that last line.  Is something trying to run the command
> "root"?
>
> I am using vixie-cron and this is root's crontab:
>
> =============================================================
> # Global variables
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/
> # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
> 0 * * * *       root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
                      ^^^^

This is trying to run the command "root" which doesn't exist.

Uwe

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