Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:12:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange cron problem. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980121141144.5192D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.980117204150.14137A-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>
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On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > 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: Can you be more specific? What command line(s) and/or crontab(s) are you using? I think you may be using the wrong format in the wrong place; the crontab in /etc/crontab and the one you feed to crontab(1) are different formats. > 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 > ******************************************************************************* > Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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