Problems running SH jobs using CRON

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Aug 12 23:12:14 UTC 2008


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:04:00 -0400, jeff goudie wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have two SH jobs I've always run manually in the past and would like
>> to have them run once a week automatically using cron..  I looked on
>> the internet for examples of running SH jobs and used crontab -e to
>> create this:
>>
>> [root at alice jeff]# cat /var/spool/cron/root
>> 45 12 * * 0 root /bin/sh /home/jeff/jeffbkup.sh
>> 11 3 * * 6 root /home/jeff/rsynchbkup.sh
>>
>> When each scheduled job fires off, I get an email from Cron_Daemon
>> with this message:
>>
>> /bin/sh: root: command not found
>>
>> This endeavor seemed pretty straight forward and after adding /bin to
>> my path and still getting the above message, I'm kinda stumped now.
>> Any suggestions or any more info I can offer?  Thanks!
> 
> Reread the crontab manual page. User's crontabs have only six (!)
> fields, not seven. Only the global /etc/crontab has seven fields.

Also, if you want them run only one a week, you might just put a script 
to run them in /etc/cron.weekly unless you need better control over when 
they run.....

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