From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 16 15:51:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A7B14A27 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:51:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat44.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.236]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id BAA05712; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:50:51 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA56436; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 16:46:11 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 16:46:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Alex Charalabidis Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: is this a bug? Message-ID: <20000116164611.B56231@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <200001152311.SAA53209@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 08:50:19PM -0600, Alex Charalabidis wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > > Somebody's crontab or /etc/crontab have some messed up entries? Not > > sure, never seen a message like those before. > > I have, on 3.3-RC, but my memory of the incident is a bit vague. What > *appeared* to solve it was deleting root's crontab. IIRC, it started > happening after I edited /etc/crontab with a text editor, NOT > crontab(1). What do you mean, not crontab(1). That you didn't use `crontab -e' to edit the crontab file? To be frank, I almost habitually use a text editor to edit /etc/crontab, and it has always worked for me. Well, not always, but when it didn't it was because I had forgotten a field here and there, or because some silly editor wrapped automagically some line without letting me know ;) Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message