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Operating Systems Solaris Bad user root in crontab Post 302634307 by ijustneeda on Thursday 3rd of May 2012 07:56:23 AM

05-03-2012

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hi, @jim mcnamara
there is a crontab file for root.au but its empty and
there is no group for root.au user sys.
Actually there is no cron job for root.au.
I connect to machine with root user. I create crontab with root user...
I mean, I did almost everything with root user.

---------- Post updated at 04:56 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:27 AM ----------

hi @methyl,

I am really sorry. I typied accidently wrong. its /usr/bin/bash in passwd file.
1.Yes there is no UID or GID for root but it has group in /etc/group file.
(could that be reason for this error?)

And when I grep "root" /etc/passwd single line comes.

2.when I ls -la to crontab file the full line is

-rw---------- 1 root root 844 May 3 14:38 root

3.No... İn the log file errors are the same...

İt is

! bad user (root) thu may 3 14:50 2012
! bad user (root) thu may 3 14:51 2012
! bad user (root) thu may 3 14:52 2012 (this script must work every minute. Which gives error)

keep going like this...

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