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

[Jerome Fong]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 08 November 2007 20:28, Jerome Fong wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
>   Is it a symlink?
> 
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

No, they are files not links

Jerome


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