Cron Daemon Messages: Root not found

[repa]

Hi,

since today i get the follwoing e-mails every 15 minutes:

Cron <root@xyz> root [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {} 2>/dev/null \; -delete

/bin/sh: 1: root: not found

and

Cron <root@xyt> root [ -x /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng ] && /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng >/dev/null 2>&1
/bin/sh: 1: root: not found

Anyone get the same errors?

 

[IgorG]

Check your cron syntax. If you are making changes in a local cron file using crontab -e, the job entry should contain 6 fields (not the username) like this:

* * * * * /home/command.sh

A wrong entry like this:

* * * * * root /home/command.sh

would cause cron to interpret "root" as a command.

The syntax "* * * * * root /home/command.sh" is valid for system crontab file /etc/crontab.

 

[repa]

Hi Igor,

we have not made any modification to cron on this machine!

the cron looks like this:

cat plesk-backup-manager
8,23,38,53 * * * * /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng && /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng >/dev/null 2>&1

cat php5
# /etc/cron.d/php5: crontab fragment for php5
# This purges session files older than X, where X is defined in seconds
# as the largest value of session.gc_maxlifetime from all your php.ini
# files, or 24 minutes if not defined. See /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime

# Look for and purge old sessions every 30 minutes
09,39 * * * * /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime && -d /var/lib/php5 && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {} 2>/dev/null \; -delete

 

[repa]

Any hint? More Jobs are coming every day, very strange!

Cron <root@xyz> list [ -x /usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled ] && /usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled
/bin/sh: 1: list: not found