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Subject: Re: problems with cron...
To: smace@metal-mail.neosoft.com (Scott Mace)
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 21:19:13 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
> 
> Can someone test to see if crontab -e works?
> 
> I did a
> 
> crontab -e 
> * * * * * root /bin/ls

Now I know what your problem is, crontab -e when logged in as root
edit's /var/cron/tabs/root.  Files in /var/cron *DO NOT* take a
user name field!!  Only /etc/crontab does, and you use vi or any
other editor to change it, not crontab -e!!!!

> and then:
> 
> crontab -e
> 
> and deleted it
> 
> but it kept on running once a minute

CHeck that /var/cron/tabs/root is empty, rm it since you probably
don't want one there anyway, kill and restart cron.


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