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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 2006 15:22:38 -0500
From:      "Don Wilde" <Don@Network-Lynx.net>
To:        "Brooks Davis" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cron abuse
Message-ID:  <eefa2c8b0609031322w10241583gf9052f8b1ea68d3a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060903173442.GC45627@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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> 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
>
Which is what happened here. :) It never ceases to amaze me how rich a
world FreeBSD is, and there's always more to learn. Many tanks of beer
to all who added suggestions. The root crontab was indeed saved by my
actions as /var/cron/tabs/root, and it was that which was complaining
vociferously.



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