Crontab question

[Allen Wayne Best <linux atoka-software com>]

hello:

i am getting the following message when the cron.hourly jobs are invoked. but 
not on the daily or weekly. (a month has not passed, so i don't know if the 
monthly run will have the problem.)

interestingly enough, there are no files in /etc/cron.hourly.

	/bin/bash: line 1: root: command not found

the /etc/crontab file is as follows:

SHELL=/bin/sh
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


any ideas are welcome. thanks in advance.

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regards,
allen wayne best, esq
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