Strange cron problem

[Brian Dessent]

John Beranek wrote:

>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.3144 installed on Mon Sep 27 12:06:29 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
> #* * * * * echo foo
> 7 0,12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/update_cygwin_mirror

Looks like you've got one too many '*', so that the command that cron is
trying to run is actually whatever happens to be the first filename in
the current directory.

Brian

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