2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/miscutils/crond.c b/miscutils/crond.c
index b18e27489..fa7964e4e 100644
--- a/miscutils/crond.c
+++ b/miscutils/crond.c
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ static void SynchronizeDir(void)
 
         remove(CRONUPDATE);
         if (chdir(CDir) < 0) {
-                crondlog("\311unable to find %s\n", CDir);
+                crondlog("\311cannot find %s\n", CDir);
         }
         {
                 DIR *dir = opendir(".");
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ static void SynchronizeDir(void)
                         }
                         closedir(dir);
                 } else {
-                        crondlog("\311Unable to open current dir!\n");
+                        crondlog("\311cannot open current dir!\n");
                 }
         }
 }
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ ForkJob(const char *user, CronLine * line, int mailFd,
                         close(mailFd);
                 }
                 execl(prog, prog, cmd, arg, NULL);
-                crondlog("\024unable to exec, user %s cmd %s %s %s\n", user, prog, cmd, arg);
+                crondlog("\024cannot exec, user %s cmd %s %s %s\n", user, prog, cmd, arg);
                 if (mailf) {
                         fdprintf(1, "Exec failed: %s -c %s\n", prog, arg);
                 }
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ static void RunJob(const char *user, CronLine * line)
                         line->cl_Shell);
                 line->cl_MailPos = lseek(mailFd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
         } else {
-                crondlog("\024unable to create mail file user %s file %s, output to /dev/null\n", user, mailFile);
+                crondlog("\024cannot create mail file user %s file %s, output to /dev/null\n", user, mailFile);
         }
 
         ForkJob(user, line, mailFd, DEFAULT_SHELL, "-c", line->cl_Shell, mailFile);
@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ static void RunJob(const char *user, CronLine * line)
 #endif
 
                 execl(DEFAULT_SHELL, DEFAULT_SHELL, "-c", line->cl_Shell, NULL);
-                crondlog("\024unable to exec, user %s cmd %s -c %s\n", user,
+                crondlog("\024cannot exec, user %s cmd %s -c %s\n", user,
                                  DEFAULT_SHELL, line->cl_Shell);
                 exit(0);
         } else if (pid < 0) {
diff --git a/miscutils/crontab.c b/miscutils/crontab.c
index 6ae1b020c..743ac74ae 100644
--- a/miscutils/crontab.c
+++ b/miscutils/crontab.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ int crontab_main(int ac, char **av)
         if (repFile) {
                 repFd = GetReplaceStream(caller, repFile);
                 if (repFd < 0)
-                        bb_error_msg_and_die("unable to read replacement file");
+                        bb_error_msg_and_die("cannot read replacement file");
         }
 
         /*
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ int crontab_main(int ac, char **av)
                                 close(fd);
                                 rename(path, pas->pw_name);
                         } else {
-                                bb_error_msg("unable to create %s/%s", CDir, path);
+                                bb_error_msg("cannot create %s/%s", CDir, path);
                         }
                         close(repFd);
                 }
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ int crontab_main(int ac, char **av)
                         /* loop */
                 }
                 if (fo == NULL) {
-                        bb_error_msg("unable to append to %s/%s", CDir, CRONUPDATE);
+                        bb_error_msg("cannot append to %s/%s", CDir, CRONUPDATE);
                 }
         }
         return 0;