cron.weekly script syntax error near unexpected token `('

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It isn't a cron error. It's a bash error. If you run the command from your terminal, this is what you'll get:

[asinha@ankur-laptop  ~]$ /usr/bin/locate .rpmsave .rpmnew > (/usr/bin/mailx -s "Rpmsave and Rpmnew Configs" user)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

The error is in the usage of >. Using only a > implies that you're redirecting stdout to a file. To redirect it to another program, you need to use |, a "pipe". That should fix your bash syntax. The correct command would be:

/usr/bin/locate .rpmsave .rpmnew | (/usr/bin/mailx -s "Rpmsave and Rpmnew Configs" user)

( I haven't checked the usage of mailx here). More information on bash redirection here: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html

Is this a script of yours ? Because I didn't find any relevant in cron.weekly folder at (my) Fedora 20. I think a more correct syntax would be

#!/bin/bash +x
#cat rpmnew 
# Check for new configs
# as a result of updating
/usr/bin/locate .rpmsave .rpmnew | /usr/bin/mailx -s "Rpmsave and Rpmnew Configs" $USER

Tip: In order to make mailx (or mail) to correct deliver the local mails you need to install and enable sendmail .

sudo yum install sendmail
sudo systemctl enable sendmail
sudo systemctl start sendmail