[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: cron update

Maximilian Doerr cybernet678 at yahoo.com
Thu May 1 13:15:12 UTC 2014


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> On May 1, 2014, at 9:13, Marc-André Pelletier <mpelletier at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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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