[Labs-l] Crontab not working

Bryan White bgwhite at gmail.com
Thu May 1 20:18:07 UTC 2014


Is this yell and piss on your customers day?  I have provided
everything you have asked for.  I have provided the toolname.  I have
said nothing in my cron is working.  I have said it is the same
problem that Maximilian Doerr. I have provided the offending text in
the crontab, which is the same offending text as Doerr's.  I have
provided EVERYTHING that Doerr did.  His was fixed and I'm getting
yelled at that I haven't provided any informatioin. What in  tarnation
more do you want?  I have provided everything requested.  If there is
something more, tell me specifically instead of getting in a huff.


> 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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