Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"
On 11/05/2014 10:48, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Look into
- /etc/cron.d
- crontab -l
It would not make much sense, but maybe someone added a call to
/etc/cron.hourly there.
server4:/# crontab -l
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
#
# 24 10 * * * ron rdiff-backup --print-statistics -v3 /nfs
ron@server5::/sata1tb/backup/filestorebak
# 24 13 * * * ron rdiff-backup --print-statistics -v3 /nfs
ron@server5::/sata1tb/backup/filestorebak
# 24 16 * * * ron rdiff-backup --print-statistics -v3 /nfs
ron@server5::/sata1tb/backup/filestorebak
# 24 19 * * * ron rdiff-backup --print-statistics -v3 /nfs
ron@server5::/sata1tb/backup/filestorebak
#
#
How very odd.
That isn't the content of /etc/crontab .
That's the content of a much earlier cron arrangement we had before we
reconfigured some of the servers, a couple of years ago. It also does
not contain our existing nfs backup cronjob (which regularly runs
happily and sends a confirming email). So this output of crontab -l
is *not* /etc/crontab. *Neither* is it reporting all the current cron
jobs that run.
/etc/cron.d only contains anacron and mdadm; the anacron entry is for
07:30 every day (so not causing our hourly problem) and mdadm is a
monthly check.
Grateful for the tip, Martin.
EDIT: I see from Andrei's and Filip's replies that this report may be
picking up root's crontab from /var/spool/cron/crontabs .
Ron
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