On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 19:13, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Fr, den 30.07.2004 schrieb Bob Chiodini um 12:40:
> The following is showing up in root's mail box every 10 minutes:
> /bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found
> This is apparently from the sysstat job found in /etc/cron.d:
>
> # run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
> */10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
> # generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53
> 53 23 * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A
>
> What does the "root" parameter do (or not do)? It looks like crond was
> updated on 26 July.
It sets that the cronjob is running as user root.
> Bob...
Check that you do not have such a line in any /var/spool/cron/$USER
file.
Alexander
Thanks for the information.
There was an update to crond that, per the changelog fixed the user
field, the sixth field in the crontab file.
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> - 4.1-3
- Fixed bug 128701: cron fails to parse user 6th field in
- system crontabs (patch15)
Bob...