[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: cron update

Thu May 1 13:13:31 UTC 2014

On 05/01/2014 08:49 AM, Mr. Maximilian Doerr wrote:
> More serious though, is that it adds a bunch of junk,/usr/bin/jsub -N
> <unwanted name> -once -quiet, to the beginning of each entry, breaking
> the crontab.  It’s already setup to use jsub.  Every entry is being
> marked as invalid where it tries to access something that doesn’t exist.
>  Attempts to override and remove it have failed.  This is rendering the
> crontab to be quite useless.

That /is/ serious; which tool is that for?  I'll look into it.

BTW, "crontab" on its own attempts to read a new crontab from standard
input (that's the default crontab behaviour).  This is why you had to ^C
out of it.

-- Marc