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Re: Cron event logs says (*system*) NOT REGULAR... what does this mean

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


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