On 02/18/2010 10:01 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> In /etc/crontab, I have this line:
> 30  *  *  *  *  /home/root/fix_mail
>
> r...@mtranch[221]->ls -l /home/root/fix_mail
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1324 2010-02-18 07:04 /home/root/fix_mail*
>
> Crond sees this and says (from /var/log/cron)
> Feb 18 07:06:01 mtranch crond[1362]: (CRON) bad command (/etc/crontab)
>
> /home/root/fix_mail is a perl script,
> r...@mtranch[222]->head -1 /home/root/fix_mail
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> And executes correctly when run from the command line.
>
> Any thoughts on what the source of the complaint might be?
>
> Thanks.
>
>   

You have your /root in /home?? That's unusual...
Maybe there's some permissions problem with /home?

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