I wrote :-
>
> Help - uucp's mailbox is filling up with the following message ...
>
> >From daemon Wed May 1 23:49:38 1996
> Received: by hurix; id AA00380; Wed, 1 May 1996 23:49:37 +0100
> Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 23:49:37 +0100
> From: system PRIVILEGED account <root>
> Message-Id: <9605012249.AA00380_at_hurix>
> Apparently-To: uucp
>
> Your crontab file has an error in it.
> uucp
> unexpected symbol found
> This entry has been ignored.
> =======================================================================
>
> This crontab entry seems to have been set up by the installation
> process - anybody got a quick fix for this bug ?
>
Replies received from :-
Yvon Lauriault <Yvon_at_infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca>
Nicci Roth <nicci_at_ny.ox.com>
"Randy M. Hayman" <haymanr_at_icefog.sois.alaska.edu>
Henry Flogel <hflogel_at_mailhub.wpl.com>
"Jason M. Heyd" <heyd_at_lycos.com>
Thank you all for ultra quick response - the answers were all on the same lines
I include Jason's in the hope that Digital read this list and fix the bug !
>Comment out the first line of uucp's crontab entry in the following file:
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp
>This has been around for a while, and I can't believe Digital hasn't fixed
>it, but it seems to just be a missing hash mark.
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| Eric Wyn Jones, Information Services, University of Wales, Bangor |
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Received on Mon May 13 1996 - 23:51:02 NZST