Cron says "bad command"

[Robert Nichols]

Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 02/18/2010 03:38:55 PM, Rick Sewill wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 12:05 -0700, Craig White wrote: 
>>> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 10:01 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>>> In /etc/crontab, I have this line:
>>>> 30  *  *  *  *  /home/root/fix_mail
[SNIP]
> Thanks Craig and Rick for the suggestions. AFAICT the problem is with 
> the processing of the crontab file itself, not with the execution of 
> the command. FWIW, when the command is executed from /etc/cron.hourly 
> it works without a problem.

Ah, yes.  The format of /etc/crontab is different from that for individual
users' crontab files.  You need to include the user ID:

     30  *  *  *  *  root /home/root/fix_mail
                     ^^^^
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