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

[Jerome Fong]

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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