Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 16:46:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: is this a bug? Message-ID: <20000116164611.B56231@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05.10001152039410.5324-100000@earth.wnm.net> References: <200001152311.SAA53209@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.BSI.4.05.10001152039410.5324-100000@earth.wnm.net>
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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
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