Hello!

I have a server set up with Fedora Core 6.

In my crontab I have:

Now, I have 2 questions:
1. Can I declare MAILTO=... multiple times ? [Is there any issue if I declared mailto multiple times ?]
2. I keep getting these strange e-mails:

Root mailbox:
address@domain.tld mailbox:
The directory /etc/cron.hourly is empty;

Does anybody have any suggestion?

Thank you

how do you edit your crontab? seems like formating is bad. Try to use crontab -e rather than directly editing /etc/crontab. Multiple Mailto's are ok as long as aech is immediately followed by the cron entry which it is responsible for.

What is wrong with the formatting ? I mean.. when i run crontab crontab I don't get any error messages [I got in the past a few times] ... so, as long as crontab doesn't complain... are there chances that the formatting is bad ?

Oh, and regarding multiple mailto, consider the following fictive example:
if a mail would be sent from the last command (command123), where would the mail end up? In the root mailbox or in the address@domain.tld mailbox ?

I mean.. if you declare mailto multiple times, the 2nd time, 3rd time, 4th time etc those declarations will stand up only for the next cron command ? or they will remain active until the next mailto overwrites them ?

No. The latest declaration will supersede the previous ones.

If you carefully read the email, you'll see that it is trying to run a command:
And, as noted, root is not a command that is found.

Looks like you've put /etc/crontab format in to root's personal crontab (edited via crontab -e). Remove the field containing "root". See the crontab(5) manpages for details.