Cron Errors in Root's Mail

The following is showing up in root's mail box every 10 minutes: Message 1: From root(a)solaria.ksc.nasa.gov Thu Jul 29 07:00:02 2004 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:00:01 -0400 From: root(a)solaria.ksc.nasa.gov (Cron Daemon) To: root(a)solaria.ksc.nasa.gov Subject: Cron <root@solaria> root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1 X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> /bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found This is apparently from the sysstat job found in /etc/cron.d: # run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes */10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1 # generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53 53 23 * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A What does the "root" parameter do (or not do)? It looks like crond was updated on 26 July. Bob...