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

[Dave Korn]

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?

  Who owns the files mentioned?

> 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: (*system*) NOT
> REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.daily)
> 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: (*system*) NOT
> REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.hourly)
> 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: (*system*) NOT
> REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.monthly)
> 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: (*system*) NOT
> REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.weekly)

  This looks like the sort of confusion that cron can get into when it gets
run as a mixture of system user and regular users...


    cheers,
      DaveK
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