On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 19:04 -0400, jeff goudie wrote: > Hi there, > > I have two SH jobs I've always run manually in the past and would like > to have them run once a week automatically using cron.. I looked on > the internet for examples of running SH jobs and used crontab -e to > create this: > > [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 The argument root should not appear in a crontab entry, See man 5 crontab > > When each scheduled job fires off, I get an email from Cron_Daemon > with this message: > > /bin/sh: root: command not found > > This endeavor seemed pretty straight forward and after adding /bin to > my path and still getting the above message, I'm kinda stumped now. > Any suggestions or any more info I can offer? Thanks! > -- ======================================================================= "I'm really enjoying not talking to you ... Let's not talk again ____REAL soon ..." ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
