Since yesterday, one of my workstation refuses crontab jobs:
subject: 
   Date:        Wed, 11 Sep 1996 04:15:00 +0100
  From: system administrator/ <root_at_piaf.mpib-tuebingen.mpg.de>
Your commands will not be executed.
What I did yesterday:
As this machine is in another house I logged in as a normal user, su to
root and edited the crontab file via crontab -e (and vi).
Since then, cron refuses to work. Maybe the problem is, that my login
uid was not root? How can I manage this problem??
my crontab looks like:
# crontab -l
#
# *****************************************************************
# *                                                               *
# *    Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation, 1991, 1994    *
# *                                                               *
# *   All Rights Reserved.  Unpublished rights  reserved  under   *
# *   the copyright laws of the United States.                    *
# *                                                               *
# *   The software contained on this media  is  proprietary  to   *
# *   and  embodies  the  confidential  technology  of  Digital   *
# *   Equipment Corporation.  Possession, use,  duplication  or   *
# *   dissemination of the software and media is authorized only  *
# *   pursuant to a valid written license from Digital Equipment  *
# *   Corporation.                                                *
# *                                                               *
# *   RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND   Use, duplication, or disclosure  *
# *   by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions  as  set  *
# *   forth in Subparagraph (c)(1)(ii)  of  DFARS  252.227-7013,  *
# *   or  in  FAR 52.227-19, as applicable.                       *
# *                                                               *
# *****************************************************************
#
# HISTORY
#
# _at_(#)$RCSfile: root,v $ $Revision: 4.3.8.4 $ (DEC) $Date: 1993/11/09 
#
#
# (c) Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC.
# ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
#
# OSF/1 Release 1.2
#
#       root crontab file
#
15 4 * * * find /var/preserve -mtime +7 -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
20 4 * * * find /tmp  -type f -atime +2 -exec rm -f {} \;
30 4 * * * find /var/tmp -type f -atime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;
40 4 * * * find /var/adm/syslog.dated -depth -type d -ctime +5 -exec rm
-rf {} \;
#0 23 * * * find / -name core -exec rm {} \;
#0 3 * * 4 /usr/sbin/acct/dodisk > /var/adm/diskdiag &
# Network Information Service: SLAVE server entries
30 * * * * sh /var/yp/ypxfr_1perhour
31 1,13 * * * sh /var/yp/ypxfr_2perday
32 1 * * * sh /var/yp/ypxfr_1perday
30 23 * * * /usr/bin/rdist -f .mirrorROOT.cron >>/tmp/rdist.log
2>>/tmp/rdist.err
0 8 * * * /mail.rdist.csh >/dev/null
thanks in advance for any help.
harald
-- 
               Harald Volz
   - Netzwerk- und Systemadministration -
Max-Planck-Institut f. Biologische Kybernetik
              Spemannstr. 38
            D- 72076 Tuebingen
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Received on Wed Sep 11 1996 - 12:05:57 NZST