What's wrong with cron?

[Derek Broughton]

Lorenzo Luengo wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I recently configured the root alias to forward email to me, and i found
> that cron is throwing errors to my mailbox.
> 
> The subject is
> Cron <root at host> root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
> 
> And the body is
> 
> /bin/sh: root: not found
> 
> 
> It's the default system crontab, but it looks like it's skipping the
> username field and interpreting it as a command.
> 
> Thanks for any help you could provide me.

It would probably have helped if you'd pasted at least that line from the
crontab.  (I trust you do mean /etc/crontab, not _root's_ crontab - which
wouldn't have a username field).
-- 
derek