RE: Weird Mail Message

["L. Christopher Luther" <CLuther Xybernaut com>]

Thanks, Steve, for the "hints".  I found a file called 'root' in
/var/spool/cron.  I don't know how it got there, but it appeared to be the
same as the /etc/crontab file.  Weird...  

Anyway, once I deleted the 'root' file all was golden, and crond continues
to run w/o any problems.

- Christopher


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve [mailto:steve focb co nz]
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 8:43 PM
> To: Redhat-List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Weird Mail Message
> 
> 
> you may want to check your /etc/crontab file for consistency 
> - although it 
> sounds a little like the system crontab file has been used as 
> a template 
> for another crontab file that is running hourly
> 
> (from that crontab man page)
> The format of a cron command is very much the V7 standard, 
> with a number  
> of upward-compatible extensions.  Each line has five time and date
> fields, followed by a user name if this is  the  system  crontab file
> (end quote)
> 
> The line you see below "root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly" is 
> usually found 
> in the system crontab file and allows the system to set the 
> user that the 
> command is run as.
> 
> you may want to check for this line in /var/spool/cron/* and 
> see if that 
> entry has accidently been replicated.
> 
> if it has then it may be that your system crontab file has had its 
> location changed (recompile of cron ?) and set to call the 
> system crontab 
> file - in which case you will also get similar messages 
> daily, weekly and 
> monthly.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> -- 
> Steve.
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, L. Christopher Luther wrote:
> 
> > I know that there's been many posts regarding "weird" crond 
> messages, but a
> > quick search didn't show anything useful.  
> > 
> > I've two RH 8.0 systems that are almost completely 
> identical from a package
> > installation/configuration perspective.  However, on the 
> one system I'm
> > getting hourly mail messages that are being generated by 
> crond, but the
> > weird thing is that I don't have any files in 
> /etc/cron.hourly.  Here is the
> > message:  
> > 
> >    Message 1:
> >    From root myserver  Mon Jan 19 19:01:01 2004
> >    Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:01:00 -0500
> >    From: root myserver (Cron Daemon)
> >    To: root myserver
> >    Subject: Cron <root myserver> root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> >    X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
> >    X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
> >    X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
> >    X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
> >    X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> >    
> >    /bin/bash: line 1: root: command not found
> > 
> > As this thing is being generated hourly, it's very quickly 
> filling up my
> > mailbox.  
> > 
> > Does anyone have any clues about this one?
> > 
> > 
> > Sincerely,  
> > 
> > L. Christopher Luther  
> > Technical Consultant  
> > Xybernaut Solutions, Inc.  
> > (703) 654-3642  
> > cluther xybernaut com  
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