On 02/19/2010 02:51:56 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 02/18/2010 10:01 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > In /etc/crontab, I have this line: > > 30 * * * * /home/root/fix_mail > > > > root@mtranch[221]->ls -l /home/root/fix_mail > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1324 2010-02-18 07:04 /home/root/fix_mail* > > > > Crond sees this and says (from /var/log/cron) > > Feb 18 07:06:01 mtranch crond[1362]: (CRON) bad command > (/etc/crontab) > > > > /home/root/fix_mail is a perl script, > > root@mtranch[222]->head -1 /home/root/fix_mail > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > And executes correctly when run from the command line. > > > > Any thoughts on what the source of the complaint might be? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > You have your /root in /home?? That's unusual... > Maybe there's some permissions problem with /home? Hmmm .. just can't get no respect :-) It may be unusual to have /root in /home, but it simplifies the intallation of new versions of Fedora. I finally gave in and read the source. It appears that cron requires a user name before the command. That is, * * * * * <username> command to be executed in /etc/crontab entries. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
