On Monday 24 April 2006 08:21, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
> > 0 * * * *       root    rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
>
>                       ^^^^
>
> This is trying to run the command "root" which doesn't exist.

Yup, with vixie-cron the *system* crontab needs the user specified, any *user* 
crontab doesn't.

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Mike Williams

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