Thanks for everbody's help! Both jobs ran after removing root as suggested. Thanks agan! On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:04 PM, jeff goudie <jrgoudie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> [root@alice jeff]# cat /var/spool/cron/root >>> 45 12 * * 0 root /bin/sh /home/jeff/jeffbkup.sh >>> 11 3 * * 6 root /home/jeff/rsynchbkup.sh >>> >>> When each scheduled job fires off, I get an email from Cron_Daemon >>> with this message: >>> >>> /bin/sh: root: command not found >> >> Remove the word 'root' from both lines? >> >> I'm not positive, but if the two scripts have the proper #!/bin/sh >> line in them, putting /bin/sh in the crontab line should also be >> unnecessary. >> >> Dave >> > > That's correct. > > The lines should work like this: > 45 12 * * 0 /home/jeff/jeffbkup.sh > 11 3 * * 6 /home/jeff/rsynchbkup.sh > > ~af > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list