From: "Scott Taylor" <scott@dctchambers.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cronjobs
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:13:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1375.66.183.200.54.1059552827.squirrel@dctchambers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ALECJBOGPBKDNCCOAFDDMEIHCOAA.tom.troonbeeckx@ideaxis.com>
Tom Troonbeeckx said:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I have some proplem with mine cronjobs.
>
> I edit mine /etc/crontab with the following command "crontab -e".
> The crontab looks like this
> 3,18,33,48 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-hourly
> 1,6,11,16,21,26,31,36,41,46,51,56 * * * * root run-parts
> /etc/cron.5-min
>
> However, since I scheduled them I receive an email after each 5 and 15
> minutes with the message
> /bin/bash: root: command not found
Curious, see what happens if you change the names of those files with
"-" in them, maybe anacron is parsing those dashes. change them to
"."
mv /etc/cron.5-min /etc/cron.5.min
etc
And change those lines in the crontab file.
--
Scott
long .signature files are annoying
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-30 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-30 7:34 Cronjobs Tom Troonbeeckx
2003-07-30 7:44 ` Cronjobs César Soler
2003-07-30 7:59 ` Cronjobs Vladimír Dvoøák
2003-07-30 8:17 ` Cronjobs Horia Chirculescu
2003-07-30 8:05 ` Cronjobs Stefan Wimmer
2003-07-30 10:16 ` Cronjobs Andrew Kelly
2003-07-30 8:13 ` Scott Taylor [this message]
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