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Re: Strange cron problem
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 04:56:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: Strange cron problem
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <4157FBE6.4090706@redux.org.uk> <4157FD37.3020108@redux.org.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
John Beranek wrote:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.3144 installed on Mon Sep 27 12:06:29 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
> #* * * * * echo foo
> 7 0,12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/update_cygwin_mirror
Looks like you've got one too many '*', so that the command that cron is
trying to run is actually whatever happens to be the first filename in
the current directory.
Brian
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