On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:37:31 +0100 Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net> wrote:
> I'm missing some aspect of cron configuration, or perhaps some other > cron file somewhere. root doesn't have a /home directory, so there > isn't a crontab in it, and the only user existing on the system > doesn't have a crontab in its home directory, either. > Look in /var/spool/cron/crontabs. That is the location of the per-user crontabs. If someone copied the line 17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts--report /etc/cron.hourly in there, you would get the error you mentioned, because root will be interpretet as the command to run, because these crontabs have a different format. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140511124340.7ef7a...@orac.fil
