cron error

kanibus · Post by **kanibus** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:46 am

hey i know it was a dumb move but when crontab was automatically setup it used a | in the name and now i get hundeds of system emails from Cron Daemon because it cant open teh botchk. once i rename the botchk what exactly can i edit to point cron to that file?

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:51 am

check your crontab entries. with

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crontab -l

Dont edit that file. Copy the contents of your crontab file to another file. Edit your now new file to contain the correct entry. Then type

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crontab yournewfile

This will overwrite your crontab entries with your new edited version. Alternatively delete all of your crontab entries with

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crontab -r

and start again.