[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: cron update
Marc-André Pelletier
mpelletier at wikimedia.org
Thu May 1 13:13:31 UTC 2014
On 05/01/2014 08:49 AM, Mr. Maximilian Doerr wrote:
> More serious though, is that it adds a bunch of junk,/usr/bin/jsub -N
> <unwanted name> -once -quiet, to the beginning of each entry, breaking
> the crontab. It’s already setup to use jsub. Every entry is being
> marked as invalid where it tries to access something that doesn’t exist.
> Attempts to override and remove it have failed. This is rendering the
> crontab to be quite useless.
That /is/ serious; which tool is that for? I'll look into it.
BTW, "crontab" on its own attempts to read a new crontab from standard
input (that's the default crontab behaviour). This is why you had to ^C
out of it.
-- Marc
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