Thanks for everbody's help!  Both jobs ran after removing root as
suggested.  Thanks agan!

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Aldo Foot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:04 PM, jeff goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
>>
>> Remove the word 'root' from both lines?
>>
>> I'm not positive, but if the two scripts have the proper #!/bin/sh
>> line in them, putting /bin/sh in the crontab line should also be
>> unnecessary.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> That's correct.
>
> The lines should work like this:
> 45 12 * * 0 /home/jeff/jeffbkup.sh
> 11 3 * * 6  /home/jeff/rsynchbkup.sh
>
> ~af
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