crontab root not found

[Jonathan Arnold]

> I seem to be having some trouble with cron.  I edited my crontab file and
> added a line then ran 
> 
> #crontab /etc/crontab
> 
> Now my email box is full of "cron root not found".  Nonsense, I said, I am

I'd say you should post the new line you added to cron. Sounds like
you have the formatting incorrectlying, and it is trying to run a
bogus command called either 'cron' or 'root'.

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