[gentoo-user] Vixie-Cron Issues

[Korthrun <korthrun@gmail.com>]

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Heyyas,

      I have been getting these errors with the latest vixie-cron, and
have noticed similar things in the past with
other cron daemons, and other systems. This is the first time I've
seen it with vixie cron.
     
      I have been getting mails with subject/content like this:

Subject: Cron <root@penis> est -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons
/bin/bash: line 1: est: command not found

Subject: Cron <root@penis> m -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
/bin/bash: line 1: m: command not found

     The cronjobs causeing this, I assume are:
*/10  *  * * *  root    test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons
0  *  * * *     root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
Respectivly.

      So it looks like cron is accepting 'root' as the username to run
the command as, is doing SOMETHING with the
first letter of each command, and running the rest as something
seperate.  Does vixie-cron not accept that
username-before-command syntax? I noticed that I couldn't find
anything mentioning it in `man crontab`  or `man 5
crontab`. If so, I am assuming this crontab was installed with the
stage3 tarball and not vixiecron?

      Anyinsight would be appreciated.

Thanks much,
Korf

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