Re: [gentoo-user] dcron problem on new install

[Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>]

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On Wednesday 25 November 2015 22:29:52 waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:
>  I'm getting a bunch of messages like...
>
>> Subject: cron for user root root        [ ! -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ]
>> && { test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ; }
>> 
>> /bin/sh: root: command not found
>
>/bin/sh does exist...
>
>[d531][waltdnes][~] ll /bin/sh
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 24 12:10 /bin/sh -> bash
>
>/etc/  cron.hourly  cron.weekly  cron.monthly   are empty except for a
>dummy file .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0

I remember from experience that those messages are misleading.  It's not dcron 
complaining about /bin/sh not existing, it's /bin/sh complaining about some 
command not existing.  In fact, bash's error message format indicates that 
something is trying to execute "root":

% bash -c "echl"
bash: echl: Kommando nicht gefunden.

(dash's error message would look like this:
% dash -c "echl"
dash: 1: echl: not found)

HTH
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Marc Joliet
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