Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 118106
Non-anaconda/kickstart cron job gives "/bin/sh: line 1: anaconda-ks.cfg: command not found" error
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:00 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: This is root's crontab: [root]# crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.15505 installed on Mon Mar 1 22:05:50 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) 0 0,3,6,9,12,15,18,21 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s time.sonic.net >/dev/null This is the e-mail I get every time the job runs: Return-Path: <root@[elided]> [snip] Received: (from root@localhost) by [elided] (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2BN00Je001812 for root; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:00:00 -0800 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:00:00 -0800 Message-Id: <200403112300.i2BN00Je001812@[elided]> From: root@[elided] (Cron Daemon) To: root@[elided] Subject: Cron <root@[elided]> * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s time.sonic.net >/dev/null X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> /bin/sh: line 1: anaconda-ks.cfg: command not found Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create cron job 2. Wait for cron job to execute 3. Get seemingly unrelated error message Actual Results: I get an error message that doesn't seem to be at all related to the cron job in question. Expected Results: I should get only errors that relate directly to the cron job in question, not to anaconda/kickstart. Additional info:
0 0,3,6,9,12,15,18,21 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s time.sonic.net ^- extra asterisk This cron entry tries to run the first file encountered in your home directory (anaconda-ks.cfg) . This common typo is actually handled & reported by vixie-cron-4.1.