Problems running SH jobs using CRON

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:04:00 -0400, jeff goudie wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have two SH jobs I've always run manually in the past and would like
> to have them run once a week automatically using cron..  I looked on
> the internet for examples of running SH jobs and used crontab -e to
> create this:
> 
> [root at alice jeff]# cat /var/spool/cron/root
> 45 12 * * 0 root /bin/sh /home/jeff/jeffbkup.sh
> 11 3 * * 6 root /home/jeff/rsynchbkup.sh
> 
> When each scheduled job fires off, I get an email from Cron_Daemon
> with this message:
> 
> /bin/sh: root: command not found
> 
> This endeavor seemed pretty straight forward and after adding /bin to
> my path and still getting the above message, I'm kinda stumped now.
> Any suggestions or any more info I can offer?  Thanks!

Reread the crontab manual page. User's crontabs have only six (!)
fields, not seven. Only the global /etc/crontab has seven fields.