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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:58:33 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: Cron event logs says (*system*) NOT REGULAR... what does this mean
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| 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


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