Message from CRON

[Andreas Kohn]

Hi,

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:25, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> >From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in
> /var/mail/ges.
> 
> Upon checking, this is what I find:
> 
> Subject: Cron <ges at BudMan> operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
[...]
> operator: not found
> 
> Subject: Cron <ges at BudMan> root	/usr/libexec/atrun
[...]
> root: not found
> 
> You will notice that these times are very close together. Actually, I have
> received messages with the times varying by only a few seconds. Why am I
> receiving these messages, and what are they trying to tell me?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Gerard Seibert
> gerard-seibert at rcn.com
> 

did you modify your /etc/crontab? 

#minute hour    mday    month   wday    who     command
*/5     *       *       *       *       root    /usr/libexec/atrun
*/11    *       *       *       *       operator
/usr/libexec/save-entropy

It looks like you have an additional column in these lines, so that cron
thinks "root" and "operator" are commands to execute.

HTH,
Andreas

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