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Date:      Tue, 2 May 1995 21:19:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        smace@metal-mail.neosoft.com (Scott Mace)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: problems with cron...
Message-ID:  <199505030419.VAA03841@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505030412.WAA01404@metal.ops.neosoft.com> from "Scott Mace" at May 2, 95 10:12:49 pm

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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.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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