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From: | Jerome Fong <jfong AT successmetricsinc DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: Cron event logs says (*system*) NOT REGULAR... what does this mean |
Date: | Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:11:58 -0800 |
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Jerome Fong wrote: >> Dave Korn wrote: >>> On 08 November 2007 20:28, Jerome Fong wrote: >>> >>>> Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >>>>>> On 08 November 2007 19:29, Jerome Fong wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I got cron working as a daemon, but now it stopped working >>>>>>> again. I'm >>>>>>> getting the following errors in the cronevents output. Anyone >>>>>>> know what >>>>>>> this means? 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: >>>>>>> (*system*) NOT REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.daily) >>>>> It means that file is not a regular file. >>>>> >>>>> Pierre >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I (jfong) owned the file. Should (*system*) own the file? Sorry, I >>>> don't understand what it means when you say it is not a regular file? >>>> What makes it Not Regular? >>> >>> Is it a symlink? >>> >>> >>> cheers, >>> DaveK >> >> No, they are files not links > > > What does 'ls -l /etc/cron.d/cron.daily' say? > > Oops, I deleted the files to get cron to start working again. I'll see if the files get created again. Jerome -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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