From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 02:23:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA02511 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:23:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (root@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA02475 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:22:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA12243 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:45:05 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:45:05 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Strange cron problem. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Suddenly, crontab is not able to install a crontab for root. It tries to, and eats up large amounts of cpu, but ultimately I have to kill it. It works for othes users though. The log file returns: ORPHAN: (no passwd entry) root is listd in passwd, of course, and it is readable. Anyone have a clue what might be going on? 2.2-971214-SNAP Jonathan Fosburgh, wotan@scientist.com , University of Houston Geophysics http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations http://www.freebsd.org ******************************************************************************* We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of our exploring shall be to arrive Where we started from, and know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets *******************************************************************************