Cron Errors in Root's Mail

[Bob Chiodini]

The following is showing up in root's mail box every 10 minutes:

Message 1:
From root at solaria.ksc.nasa.gov  Thu Jul 29 07:00:02 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:00:01 -0400
From: root at solaria.ksc.nasa.gov (Cron Daemon)
To: root at solaria.ksc.nasa.gov
Subject: Cron <root at solaria> root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
 
/bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found


This is apparently from the sysstat job found in /etc/cron.d:

# run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
# generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53
53 23 * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A

What does the "root" parameter do (or not do)?  It looks like crond was
updated on 26 July.

Bob...

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