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. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list