List good morning,
I do regret asking such a basic question about cron, but I cannot seem
to get rid of what I think is a mis-configured entry, somewhere.
We have a server running Lenny (still), its role is solely to provide
a network file system. Every 17 mins past the hour, root is
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 10:37:31 schrieb Ron Leach:
List good morning,
Hi Ron,
I do regret asking such a basic question about cron, but I cannot seem
to get rid of what I think is a mis-configured entry, somewhere.
We have a server running Lenny (still), its role is solely to provide
a
On Du, 11 mai 14, 10:37:31, Ron Leach wrote:
I checked /etc/anacrontab in case it could be involved, it seems not to
contain any cron.hourly entries, nor entries at the relevant time:
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# These replace cron's
On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:37:31 +0100
Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote:
I'm missing some aspect of cron configuration, or perhaps some other
cron file somewhere. root doesn't have a /home directory, so there
isn't a crontab in it, and the only user existing on the system
doesn't have a
On 11/05/2014 10:48, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Look into
- /etc/cron.d
- crontab -l
It would not make much sense, but maybe someone added a call to
/etc/cron.hourly there.
server4:/# crontab -l
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the
On 11/05/2014 11:43, Filip wrote:
On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:37:31 +0100
Ron Leachronle...@tesco.net wrote:
I'm missing some aspect of cron configuration, or perhaps some other
cron file somewhere. root doesn't have a /home directory, so there
isn't a crontab in it, and the only user existing on
On Du, 11 mai 14, 11:53:30, Ron Leach wrote:
server4:/# crontab -l
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
I seriously doubt that.
[...]
How very odd.
That isn't the content of /etc/crontab .
Since it seems like you executed 'crontab -l' as root is seems like it
is the crontab of the 'root'
On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:07:47 +0100
Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote:
Filip, the comment suggests that I shouldn't edit this file here. Do
you have any idea where, or what, its 'master' version might be?
The correct way to edit the per-user crontabs it with
# crontab -u user -e
--
To
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 11:53:30 schrieb Ron Leach:
On 11/05/2014 10:48, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Look into
- /etc/cron.d
- crontab -l
It would not make much sense, but maybe someone added a call to
/etc/cron.hourly there.
server4:/# crontab -l
# /etc/crontab: system-wide
On Du, 11 mai 14, 12:07:47, Ron Leach wrote:
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root indeed contains exactly the error you mention:
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.jE2KHC/crontab installed on Fri Dec 31 08:54:50 2010)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13
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