RE: [cobalt-users] RE: crontab error

["Cavan Kelly" <cavan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, gsh wrote:

> My guess is you managed to overwrite the systemwide crontab (/etc) with
> roots (/var/spool/cron/root) and now you have 2 scripts running at the
> same time....you need to find a clean original copy for the system wide
> one....
>
> also remember there is a log file for cron in /var/log, it's often
> informative to see what cron thinks it doing...(it also records changes
> you made ;)
>
> I doubt you really have 2 crond's running, cron checks for this ;)
>

Yes, that looks like exactly what I have done.  At 8:52 yesterday morning to
be precise.

So... I think I can edit /etc/crontab back to the original.

Can I just delete /var/spool/cron/root to stop the second copy from running?

Thanks,
Cavan