Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: norman <norman_khine@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Vixie-Cron /bin/sh: root: command not found
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:36:03
Message-Id: 20070107153146.50688.qmail@web26503.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Vixie-Cron /bin/sh: root: command not found by Richard Fish
1 Hi Richard, thank you for your reply, I will look at these more closely as for the moment I have not set a user specific cron, I am just using the root to run these.
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3 All I did was follow the tutorial, perhaps I have missed some points ;(
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5 Cheers
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7 Norman
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9 Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: On 1/5/07, norman wrote:
10 > Hello,
11 > I am running vixie-cron, but am unable to figure out what this is all about,
12 > I have followed the
13 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
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15 > But on the report email, I only get on the email, the following:
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17 > /bin/sh: root: command not found
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19 > Here is my /etc/crontab
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21 That's the system crontab, which should have a user field in it. How
22 about your user-specific crontab from /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ ?
23 That should *not* have a user field in it AFAIK.
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25 -Richard
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