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> References: <eefa2c8b0609030933q7fd19172m72a33eaf0a8d61c@mail.gmail.com> <20060903163738.GX698@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <eefa2c8b0609030943u3fbf1530ta79211ae958a67d6@mail.gmail.com> <20060903164915.GY698@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <eefa2c8b0609030957of61ff83s63d5d2346236e3b9@mail.gmail.com> <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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