Problems running SH jobs using CRON

[Dave Burns]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:04 PM, jeff goudie <jrgoudie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [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

Remove the word 'root' from both lines?

I'm not positive, but if the two scripts have the proper #!/bin/sh
line in them, putting /bin/sh in the crontab line should also be
unnecessary.

Dave