Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On 02/18/2010 03:38:55 PM, Rick Sewill wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 12:05 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 10:01 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>> In /etc/crontab, I have this line:
>>> 30 * * * * /home/root/fix_mail
[SNIP]
Thanks Craig and Rick for the suggestions. AFAICT the problem is with
the processing of the crontab file itself, not with the execution of
the command. FWIW, when the command is executed from /etc/cron.hourly
it works without a problem.
Ah, yes. The format of /etc/crontab is different from that for individual
users' crontab files. You need to include the user ID:
30 * * * * root /home/root/fix_mail
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