[Labs-l] Crontab not working

[John]

You are giving us zero information to help you and then complaining? How
about providing the crontab text, tool name and other information needed to
help debug your issue?

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Bryan White <bgwhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could I please get some help.  It has been 12 hours since my email
> with no response.
>
> I too am getting the same thing  Maximilian Doerr (cyberbot)  had,
> "adds a bunch of junk,/usr/bin/jsub -N <unwanted name> -once -quiet,
> to the beginning of each entry, breaking the crontab"  I don't know
> what Marc did to fix cyberbot's crontab.
>
> Bryan
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Bryan White <bgwhite at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After Lab's accidental erasure of all crontabs, I retrieved my old
> > crontab off of backup because ~/...DATA.crontab was 0 length.  I ran
> > crontab and it said it was converting it to the new system.
> >
> > Nothing works.
> >
> > Looks like it converted my crontab to submit the actual crons to the
> > queue.  The jobs are going to the queue, but dying.   Crap from the
> > crons are  filling up my home directory.
> >
> > I manually ran a line from the crontab and it promptly died.
> >
> > Bryan
>
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