On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 18:08, Liangent wrote:
After some check I thought the fact was:
* I install my crontab on nightshade crontab (when it was still running Linux)
* nightshade is re-installed as Solaris and my crontab gets lost
* River publishes a notice and askes us to type 'cronie
crontab.before_nightshade_reinstall'
* I do it on willow but forget these things and think everything is
still the same as what it was before nightshade-reinstall
* cronie daemon stops working
* I run crontab -e on nightshade (I remembered incorrectly that I'm
using crontab on nightshade)
* I find my crontab empty and think there's something wrong on nightshade
* I install crontab.before_nightshade_reinstall on willow crontab
* at the same time DaB. publishes the notice that he stopped cronie
and restarted it
* I don't remember the existence of cronie and think he's talking about crontab
* Now my jobs run twice. I think one runs on willow and another on nightshade
* I check my crontab on willow and nightshade and make sure only one exists.
* I still find my jobs run twice so I send the mail.
-Liangent
Yes, that makes things even more complex.
You may like this alias I have in my .bashrc:
alias crontab=cronie