cron: command not found

Have You tried accessing the binary with the full path?

Maybe Your $PATH variable doesn't contain the default paths? echo $PATH should give something like:

[root@server ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

If it's empty, You may set the PATH variable with this command

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin"

On Debian possible default full paths are:

/usr/sbin/cron - from package: cron

You may install the required package with command apt-get install {package}
Error in other languages:
cron: bevel nie gevind nie
cron: comandă negăsită
cron: comando não encontrado
cron: commande introuvable
cron: command not found
cron: käsku ei ole
cron: không tìm thấy lệnh
cron: komanda nerasta
cron: Kommando nicht gefunden.
cron: kommandot finns inte
cron: komut yok
cron: nie znaleziono polecenia
cron: níor aimsíodh an t-ordú
cron: no se encontró la orden
cron: no s'ha trobat l'ordre
cron: opdracht niet gevonden
cron: parancs nem található
cron: perintah tidak ditemukan
cron: príkaz nenájdený
cron: příkaz nenalezen
cron: команда не найдена
cron: командата не е открита
cron: 命令找不到
cron: コマンドが見つかりません