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 redhat com> - 4.1-3 - Fixed bug 128701: cron fails to parse user 6th field in - system crontabs (patch15) Bob...
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