[Labs-l] Crontab not working

John phoenixoverride at gmail.com
Thu May 1 18:15:43 UTC 2014


Seriously? you havent provided any of the data that asked for, besides
Coren stepping in as root no one can help you.

I have asked for the associated  cron entries and gotten zero info back.

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Bryan White <bgwhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then for pete's sake, tell me what you need instead of ignoring me.
> I've given everything Maximilian Doerr did and he was helped.  I've
> already given  what my crontab says.  Marc replied to Doerr "and I've
> fixed your crontab itself."  I don't know what he did to fix it.
> Tool is checkwiki.
>
> Bryan
>
>
> > 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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