Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:54:29 +0100 From: "Clayton Milos" <clay@milos.co.za> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problems with 'periodic' in 4.11 p-24 Message-ID: <002f01c7f615$c6fbdf10$dd8dcb54@claylaptop> References: <20070912120015.3113216A4E7@hub.freebsd.org><20070912130050.GB6327@wjv.com> <46E91014.2080908@zer0.net> <20070913122648.GA18092@wjv.com>
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> On or about Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:25 , while attempting a > Zarathustra emulation Luke Hollins thus spake: > >> Can you post your crontab? Maybe one line has the username twice . > > Boy - that was the hint that helped me find the problem. > > How I did this I do not know, but the /etc/crontab was > duplicated in /var/cron/tabs/root. > > That was why the 'root: not found' message occured as the > normal cron doesn't use that. > > I still don't know how I did this - particularly after admining > FreeBSD systems since 1995. > > Maybe I did it in my sleep. > > But thanks for the comment as that put me on the correct track. > > Bill >> I have done strange things sysadmining under the influence of alcohol. Once I even changed my BIOS password under the influence and it took me half an hour to figure out what I set it to. I know it can be reset with a jumper but the hangover was suppressing that possibility too ;-) -Clay
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