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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Subject: no no no no no no no no! (Re: 386BSD Bug Report 1/1) In-Reply-To: osynw@terra2.oscs.montana.edu's message of Wed, 16 Sep 1992 05:46:57 GMT Message-ID: <VIXIE.92Sep16115826@cognition.pa.dec.com> Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Network Software Lab References: <1992Sep16.053926.29739@coe.montana.edu> <1992Sep16.054657.485@coe.montana.edu> Date: 16 Sep 92 11:58:26 Lines: 27 this is not the way to "fix" this "bug"... >Bug Number: MISC018 >Problem: > The /etc/crontab file doesn't get run. OR > cron doesn't work. >Explanation: > The cron that is supplied with 4.X BSD is Paul Vixie's > cron, which has separate crontab files contained in > /var/cron/tabs/username. > >Solution: > Move the /etc/crontab file to /usr/cron/tabs/root, and edit > it to be in the new crontab format. > >Submitted by: > jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (James Jegers) >Solved by: > jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (James Jegers) use the /usr/bin/crontab command to install crontabs. there's a protocol to be followed when updating these things, which neither "mv" or "cp" speaks. -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist; <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me