On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:57:44AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: > On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:43:01AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: > >> ... > >> Thanks for taking the time to answer, David. > > > >Sure thing. > > > >> Yes, I see that. I'm reinstalling the old /etc/crontab back into > >> /etc/crontab. > > > >OK. > > > >> This is what's driving me nuts. Why would it be acting as though it's > >> a user crontab? > > > >I doubt that it is -- more likely, a copy of /etc/crontab was installed > >as a "user crontab" -- go check /var/cron/tabs. > > > Yes, it did exactly that. Will removing the /var/cron/tabs entry make > everything Just Work again?
Yes or run "crontab -e" and delete everything in the editor window before saving. One good thing about your problem is it reminded me I'd forgotten to MFC the anti foot shooting measure I added a while back which causes crontab to refuse to load /etc/crontab as a user crontab. It doesn't try very hard, but it does prevent the most common error. -- Brooks
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