Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 02/18/2010 03:38:55 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 12:05 -0700, Craig White wrote: >>> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 10:01 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >>>> In /etc/crontab, I have this line: >>>> 30 * * * * /home/root/fix_mail [SNIP] > Thanks Craig and Rick for the suggestions. AFAICT the problem is with > the processing of the crontab file itself, not with the execution of > the command. FWIW, when the command is executed from /etc/cron.hourly > it works without a problem. Ah, yes. The format of /etc/crontab is different from that for individual users' crontab files. You need to include the user ID: 30 * * * * root /home/root/fix_mail ^^^^ -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines