dcron sends out e-mails like this: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: "root@epia" <root@epia> To: root Subject: cron: root /etc/atop/atop.daily Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:06 +0200 /bin/sh: root: command not found - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $ cat /etc/cron.d/atop # start atop daily at midnight 0 0 * * * root /etc/atop/atop.daily dcron assumes anything after the 5th field to be part of the command to be issued. Versions <sys-process/atop-1.20 didn't have this issue.
i dont think it's a "dcron" issue, but rather atop installs a cron.d file which does not conform to the standard http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/crontab.html
fixed with 1.21
cvs up :)
(In reply to comment #1) Maybe the author of atop had vixie-cron in his mind when creating /etc/cron.d/atop. In /usr/share/doc/vixie-cron-4.1-r10/FEATURES.bz2 it says: -- If it exists, the /etc/cron.d/ directory is parsed like the cron spool directory, except that the files in it are not user-specific and are therefore read with /etc/crontab syntax (the user is specified explicitly in the 6th column). As I disabled the atop cron job anyhow, I personally don't care if the atop package comes with an /etc/cron.d/atop compatible with vixie-cron or dcron or whatever-cron.
