Hi List,

I recently configured the root alias to forward email to me, and i found
that cron is throwing errors to my mailbox.

The subject is
Cron <root@host> root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly

And the body is

/bin/sh: root: not found


It's the default system crontab, but it looks like it's skipping the
username field and interpreting it as a command.

Thanks for any help you could provide me.
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Lorenzo Luengo wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I recently configured the root alias to forward email to me, and i found
> that cron is throwing errors to my mailbox.
>
> The subject is
> Cron <root@host> root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
>
> And the body is
>
> /bin/sh: root: not found
>
>
> It's the default system crontab, but it looks like it's skipping the
> username field and interpreting it as a command.
>
> Thanks for any help you could provide me.

It would probably have helped if you'd pasted at least that line from the
crontab. (I trust you do mean /etc/crontab, not _root's_ crontab - which
wouldn't have a username field).
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Derek Broughton escribió:
> Lorenzo Luengo wrote:
>
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I recently configured the root alias to forward email to me, and i found
>> that cron is throwing errors to my mailbox.
>>
>> The subject is
>> Cron <root@host> root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
>>
>> And the body is
>>
>> /bin/sh: root: not found
>>
>>
>> It's the default system crontab, but it looks like it's skipping the
>> username field and interpreting it as a command.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you could provide me.
>>
>
> It would probably have helped if you'd pasted at least that line from the
> crontab. (I trust you do mean /etc/crontab, not _root's_ crontab - which
> wouldn't have a username field).
>
You're right... but let me ask a question...

Is there a difference between system crontab and root user crontab?? How
can you make a difference between both?? (I mean how do you edit them)

I'm doing "crontab -e" under a "sudo -i" shell.

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Lorenzo Luengo escribió:
> Derek Broughton escribió:
>
>> Lorenzo Luengo wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> I recently configured the root alias to forward email to me, and i found
>>> that cron is throwing errors to my mailbox.
>>>
>>> The subject is
>>> Cron <root@host> root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
>>>
>>> And the body is
>>>
>>> /bin/sh: root: not found
>>>
>>>
>>> It's the default system crontab, but it looks like it's skipping the
>>> username field and interpreting it as a command.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you could provide me.
>>>
>>>
>> It would probably have helped if you'd pasted at least that line from the
>> crontab. (I trust you do mean /etc/crontab, not _root's_ crontab - which
>> wouldn't have a username field).
>>
>>
> You're right... but let me ask a question...
>
> Is there a difference between system crontab and root user crontab?? How
> can you make a difference between both?? (I mean how do you edit them)
>
> I'm doing "crontab -e" under a "sudo -i" shell.
>
>
Hmmm I just realized. root crontab is no /etc/crontab, and in my system,
root's crontab was a copy-paste of system crontab, and that was
generating the problems.

Thanks every one for the light shed on this problem!

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Lorenzo Luengo wrote:

> Lorenzo Luengo escribió:
>> Derek Broughton escribió:
>>
>>> It would probably have helped if you'd pasted at least that line from
>>> the
>>> crontab. (I trust you do mean /etc/crontab, not _root's_ crontab -
>>> which wouldn't have a username field).
>>>
>>>
>> You're right... but let me ask a question...
>>
>> Is there a difference between system crontab and root user crontab?? How
>> can you make a difference between both?? (I mean how do you edit them)
>>
>> I'm doing "crontab -e" under a "sudo -i" shell.
>>
> Hmmm I just realized. root crontab is no /etc/crontab, and in my system,

Precisely.

> root's crontab was a copy-paste of system crontab, and that was
> generating the problems.

Indeed. I'm not actually sure what the correct way to edit /etc/crontab
is - I always just edited it :-) These days I usually use kcron, which
differentiates between the "system" cron and "root".
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On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:17:24 -0400
Derek Broughton wrote:

> Indeed. I'm not actually sure what the correct way to
> edit /etc/crontab is - I always just edited it :-) These days I
> usually use kcron, which differentiates between the "system" cron and
> "root". --

Is kcron a stand-alone app, or must one be using KDE?

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R Kimber wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:17:24 -0400
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>> Indeed. I'm not actually sure what the correct way to
>> edit /etc/crontab is - I always just edited it :-) These days I
>> usually use kcron, which differentiates between the "system" cron and
>> "root". --
>
> Is kcron a stand-alone app, or must one be using KDE?

Well, its only KDE dependency is kdelibs - but that's pretty much the basis
of KDE...

You might also consider gcrontab, which is GTK based.
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