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From: talley@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James T. Talley)
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Subject: Re: Novice administrator cron problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.142712.1060@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 91 14:27:12 GMT
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You write:
>What's happening is that you've got two copies of cron running. Look-
>$ ps -ef |grep cron
>    root   125     1  0  Mar  4  ?        0:07 /etc/cron
>    root 21856     1  1 15:31:25 ?        0:00 /etc/cron
>    root 21858 21850  4 15:31:29 a0       0:00 grep cron

Well, mine looks like this -
delphic.root 1 # ps -ef | grep cron
    root   108     1  0  Mar  4  ?        0:06 /etc/cron
    root  2821  2787  4 09:16:22 p0       0:00 grep cron

I've even restarted the system a couple of times.  (It's used for
development right now.  I can pretty much do any thing I want with
it.)

I did some editing of crontab files with a text editor before I read
about the crontab command.  I thought that this might be the problem,
but now there's nothing funny in the /usr/spool/cron/crontabs
directory (crontab, lp, and root are empty, adm is commented out, and
uucp has three lines).  The restarts should have cleared out anything
stored in core.  Unless cron is using info from somewhere else or is
just busted, I can't figure out what is going on.

Thanks for the help,