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RE: Cron event logs says (*system*) NOT REGULAR... what does this mean
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 19:40:51 -0000
- Subject: RE: Cron event logs says (*system*) NOT REGULAR... what does this mean
- References: <fgvo1n$3sr$1@ger.gmane.org>
On 08 November 2007 19:29, Jerome Fong wrote:
> I got cron working as a daemon, but now it stopped working again. I'm
> getting the following errors in the cronevents output. Anyone know what
> this means?
Who owns the files mentioned?
> 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: (*system*) NOT
> REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.daily)
> 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: (*system*) NOT
> REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.hourly)
> 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: (*system*) NOT
> REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.monthly)
> 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: (*system*) NOT
> REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.weekly)
This looks like the sort of confusion that cron can get into when it gets
run as a mixture of system user and regular users...
cheers,
DaveK
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