From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Taylor" Subject: Re: Cronjobs Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1375.66.183.200.54.1059552827.squirrel@dctchambers.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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