Cron Errors in Root's Mail

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 30.07.2004 schrieb Bob Chiodini um 12:40:

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

> /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.

It sets that the cronjob is running as user root.

> Bob...

Check that you do not have such a line in any /var/spool/cron/$USER
file.

Alexander


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