Re: [cobalt-users] CRON Question

[Christopher Manders <CJManders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

This usually indicates that a cron job has not got a PATH set correctly,
thus some part of the cronjob is unable to find a command that is not set
with an absolute PATH. This indicates that the job is part of the
/etc/cron.hourly jobs. If you 'cd' into the directory you will find scripts
that are to be run every hour. I can't tell which job is not running
correctly, but the thing to look for is the absence of a 'PATH=' near the
top of one of them. Or, run them by hand, one-by-one, and you should find
the one with the problem. You might want to trim your own env PATH variable
first, though, by doing: PATH=/bin:/sbin;export PATH. Note that to fix your
own PATH afterwards you will likely want to log out and then log back in
(or, '. ~/.bash_profile').

I hope that helps.


Chris



Brett Bunch | Guntersville City Schools wrote:

> I have the following message showing up each hour in my admin mail box.
>
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:01:00 -0500
> From: root (Cron Daemon)
> To: root
> Subject: Cron <root@dns1> root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
>
> /bin/bash: root: command not found
>
> Can anyone help me out here?
>
> Brett Bunch
> Guntersville City Schools
> Network Operations Center
> Internet Server Administrator
> webmaster@xxxxxxxxx
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