crontab error

[iarly selbir]

is missing username on your cronjob, your line should something like this:

1 4 * * * root /usr/bin/rsync -a /home/ /media/2GHJTCB4/backups/hda/home

where "root" is the user that will execute the command.

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iarlyy selbir

:wq!



On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>wrote:

> This is on F12.
>
> When I edit /etc/crontab (SUed as root, using VI) I see the following in
> /var/log/cron after I save crontab:
>
> Feb 16 00:39:02 hda crond[1541]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
> Feb 16 00:39:02 hda crond[1541]: (CRON) bad username (/etc/crontab)
>
> My crontab content is:
>
> # cat crontab
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/
>
> # For details see man 4 crontabs
>
> # Example of job definition:
> # .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
> # |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
> # |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
> # |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
> # |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR
> sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
> # |  |  |  |  |
> # *  *  *  *  *  command to be executed
> 1 4 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -a /home/ /media/2GHJTCB4/backups/hda/home
>
>
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