[Labs-l] Crontab not working

Thu May 1 18:04:55 UTC 2014

Mark fixed it?  Yay.
On May 1, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Bryan White <bgwhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could I please get some help.  It has been 12 hours since my email
> with no response.
> 
> I too am getting the same thing  Maximilian Doerr (cyberbot)  had,
> "adds a bunch of junk,/usr/bin/jsub -N <unwanted name> -once -quiet,
> to the beginning of each entry, breaking the crontab"  I don't know
> what Marc did to fix cyberbot's crontab.
> 
> Bryan
> 
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Bryan White <bgwhite at gmail.com> wrote:
>> After Lab's accidental erasure of all crontabs, I retrieved my old
>> crontab off of backup because ~/...DATA.crontab was 0 length.  I ran
>> crontab and it said it was converting it to the new system.
>> 
>> Nothing works.
>> 
>> Looks like it converted my crontab to submit the actual crons to the
>> queue.  The jobs are going to the queue, but dying.   Crap from the
>> crons are  filling up my home directory.
>> 
>> I manually ran a line from the crontab and it promptly died.
>> 
>> Bryan
> 
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