[gentoo-user] Vixie-Cron /bin/sh: root: command not found

[gentoo-user] Vixie-Cron /bin/sh: root: command not found

[norman]

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Hello,
I am running vixie-cron, but am unable to figure out what this is all about, I have followed the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml 

But on the report email, I only get on the email, the following:

/bin/sh: root: command not found


Here is my /etc/crontab

# for vixie cron
#
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v 1.1 2005/03/04 23:59:48 ciaranm Ex$
#
#

# Global variables
#SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
0  *  * * *     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
1  3  * * *     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
15 4  * * 6     root    rm -f  /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
30 5  1 * *     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
*/10  *  * * *  root    test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons

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Re: [gentoo-user] Vixie-Cron /bin/sh: root: command not found

[Richard Fish]

On 1/5/07, norman <norman_khine@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running vixie-cron, but am unable to figure out what this is all about,
> I have followed the
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
>
> But on the report email, I only get on the email, the following:
>
> /bin/sh: root: command not found

> Here is my /etc/crontab

That's the system crontab, which should have a user field in it.  How
about your user-specific crontab from /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ ?
That should *not* have a user field in it AFAIK.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Vixie-Cron /bin/sh: root: command not found

[norman]

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Hi Richard, thank you for your reply, I will look at these more closely as for the moment I have not set a user specific cron, I am just using the root to run these.

All I did was follow the tutorial, perhaps I have missed some points ;(

Cheers

Norman

Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote: On 1/5/07, norman  wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running vixie-cron, but am unable to figure out what this is all about,
> I have followed the
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
>
> But on the report email, I only get on the email, the following:
>
> /bin/sh: root: command not found

> Here is my /etc/crontab

That's the system crontab, which should have a user field in it.  How
about your user-specific crontab from /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ ?
That should *not* have a user field in it AFAIK.

-Richard
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