From: Michael
Bevilacqua [mailto:michael@bevilacqua.us]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1:21
PM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's
Group Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Problems with
cron running daily/monthly jobs
On
7/30/07, Michael Bevilacqua <michael@bevilacqua.us> wrote:
On 7/30/07, Mark
Baker <mark.baker@hxti.com>
wrote:
I have been having problems with cron running the jobs in my
/etc/cron.daily directory lately. The error the cron sends me is
"/bin/bash: root: command not found".
Has anyone had the same problem? I haven't been able to
track down the problem.
I would start by looking at your /etc/crontab to see if that file is setup
incorrectly. It should look something like:
# 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
The position of `root` in this file is important as it tells cron as which user
to run the job as.
--
Michael D. Bevilacqua
michael@bevilacqua.us
Not to reply to my own post ;-) but Gentoo's crontab syntax example might
upset some people on this list. I'll instead, post a Redhat example, which is
more traditional:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
--
Michael D. Bevilacqua
michael@bevilacqua.us