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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Strange cron problem.
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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
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Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major