unable to run cron job
 

Hi

i want to run a cron job.

at the promp i do

crontab -e

then i added

28 11 30 Jun * root echo "I LOVE U"


THE ERROR I GET IN /var/spool/mail/root is that

/bin/sh: root: command not found.


Please help:confused:

Re: unable to run cron job
 

the error is caused because the way you wrote it you are telling cron you want to run the command "root" - which isn't a command... just put the command starting with the echo and you should be fine, since this is root's crontab, the commands wil run as root...

SO why did you use that root for?

Remove ther word root in your cron entry and the command will work fine.

Cheers
Z

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