RE: [cobalt-users] Cron misconfig

["Adam Knowles" <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You replaced >root's< cron table with the systemwide one, now you have 2
> of them running at the same time, worse, the systemwide file is in a
> different format than roots is supposed to be....

OIC!  I didn't think it was right but couldn't figure out why the 'system's
crontab would not be 'root's crontab. Is the systems crontab just
/etc/crontab ?  i.e. You can't 'su someuser' and 'crontab -e' to edit it?

I already have pico set to edit crontabs - so I went in and just deleted
everything and saved/installed it. Then I made /etc/crontab look right and
did a 'kill -HUP 377' where 377 was the PID of crond. Is that enough/the
right way to restart the crond?

hehe, yeah it is a consolation that sum1 else is as dumb as me. I did check
the archive tho :(

Thanks for all your help - hopefully this will sort it now.

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