[gentoo-user] Cron problem

[gentoo-user] Cron problem

[Anthony E. Caudel]

For the last few days I have had a cron problem.  It started when I was
trying to to find a way to modify the crontab by a script.  Don't know
what I did but ever since, every cron script (root's only) emails me a
notice like the following:

===========================================================
>From root@localhost.localdomain  Fri Apr 17 23:50:01 2006
X-Original-To: root
From: root@localhost.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
To: root@localhost.localdomain
Subject: Cron <root@hilary> root        test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
/usr/sbin/run-crons
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
Date: Fri,  7 Apr 2006 23:50:01 -0500 (CDT)

/bin/bash: root: command not found
===========================================================

Interestingly, all the scripts run fine.  It's just that I get emails
every ten minutes (the frequency of the "test -x /usr...") and it's
driving me crazy.

Can't figure that last line.  Is something trying to run the command "root"?

I am using vixie-cron and this is root's crontab:

=============================================================
# 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
#
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * *        root    test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
/usr/sbin/run-crons
# Hourly backups
0 1,7,13,19 * * *       root    rsnapshot hourly
# Daily backups
0 2 * * *       root    rsnapshot daily
# Weekly backups
0 3 * * 7       root    rsnapshot weekly
# This file was written by KCron. Copyright (c) 1999, Gary Meyer
# Although KCron supports most crontab formats, use care when editing.
# Note: Lines beginning with "#\" indicates a disabled task
==============================================================

PLease help.  My own system is spamming me!

Tony
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cron problem

[Uwe Thiem]

On 24 April 2006 06:08, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
> For the last few days I have had a cron problem.  It started when I was
> trying to to find a way to modify the crontab by a script.  Don't know
> what I did but ever since, every cron script (root's only) emails me a
> notice like the following:
>
> ===========================================================
> From root@localhost.localdomain  Fri Apr 17 23:50:01 2006
> X-Original-To: root
> From: root@localhost.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
> To: root@localhost.localdomain
> Subject: Cron <root@hilary> root        test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
> /usr/sbin/run-crons
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> Date: Fri,  7 Apr 2006 23:50:01 -0500 (CDT)
>
> /bin/bash: root: command not found
> ===========================================================
>
> Interestingly, all the scripts run fine.  It's just that I get emails
> every ten minutes (the frequency of the "test -x /usr...") and it's
> driving me crazy.
>
> Can't figure that last line.  Is something trying to run the command
> "root"?
>
> I am using vixie-cron and this is root's crontab:
>
> =============================================================
> # 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
                      ^^^^

This is trying to run the command "root" which doesn't exist.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cron problem

[Mike Williams]

On Monday 24 April 2006 08:21, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
> > 0 * * * *       root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
>
>                       ^^^^
>
> This is trying to run the command "root" which doesn't exist.

Yup, with vixie-cron the *system* crontab needs the user specified, any *user* 
crontab doesn't.

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