[Nottingham] Perl (...) -> Backup and sendmail problems

[Johannes Kling]

Hello,

> Sep  1 02:54:00 **** CROND[28109]: (root) CMD (/etc/backup.cron) 
> Sep  1 02:54:00 **** CROND[28108]: (root) MAIL (mailed 80 bytes of output but got status 0x0047 )

Cron will send you a mail if one of its jobs doesn't exit properly
(or, I believe, when it produces output to STDERR). This is exactly
what the log shows.

> /usr/bin/run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/backup.cron: /bin/sh: bad
> interpreter: No such file or directory
> Any ideas? Is it something blindingly obvious and I'm being incredibly
> stupid?

There is a /bin/sh, and it's executable, right? Is there a #! line in
your backup.cron?

Regards,
  Johannes