X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jerome Fong Subject: Re: Cron event logs says (*system*) NOT REGULAR... what does this mean Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:28:29 -0800 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <001201c8223f$44c7adc0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <050d01c82241$c1dca2a0$b40410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <050d01c82241$c1dca2a0$b40410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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? thanks, 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/