crontab will not be executed any longer

From: Harald Volz <volz_at_mpib-tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:36:19 +0100

Since yesterday, one of my workstation refuses crontab jobs:

subject:
   Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 04:15:00 +0100
  From: system administrator/ <root_at_piaf.mpib-tuebingen.mpg.de>


Your commands will not be executed.

What I did yesterday:
As this machine is in another house I logged in as a normal user, su to
root and edited the crontab file via crontab -e (and vi).
Since then, cron refuses to work. Maybe the problem is, that my login
uid was not root? How can I manage this problem??


my crontab looks like:


# crontab -l
#
# *****************************************************************
# * *
# * Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation, 1991, 1994 *
# * *
# * All Rights Reserved. Unpublished rights reserved under *
# * the copyright laws of the United States. *
# * *
# * The software contained on this media is proprietary to *
# * and embodies the confidential technology of Digital *
# * Equipment Corporation. Possession, use, duplication or *
# * dissemination of the software and media is authorized only *
# * pursuant to a valid written license from Digital Equipment *
# * Corporation. *
# * *
# * RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND Use, duplication, or disclosure *
# * by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions as set *
# * forth in Subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of DFARS 252.227-7013, *
# * or in FAR 52.227-19, as applicable. *
# * *
# *****************************************************************
#
# HISTORY
#
# _at_(#)$RCSfile: root,v $ $Revision: 4.3.8.4 $ (DEC) $Date: 1993/11/09
#
#
# (c) Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC.
# ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
#
# OSF/1 Release 1.2
#
# root crontab file
#
15 4 * * * find /var/preserve -mtime +7 -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
20 4 * * * find /tmp -type f -atime +2 -exec rm -f {} \;
30 4 * * * find /var/tmp -type f -atime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;
40 4 * * * find /var/adm/syslog.dated -depth -type d -ctime +5 -exec rm
-rf {} \;
#0 23 * * * find / -name core -exec rm {} \;
#0 3 * * 4 /usr/sbin/acct/dodisk > /var/adm/diskdiag &
# Network Information Service: SLAVE server entries
30 * * * * sh /var/yp/ypxfr_1perhour
31 1,13 * * * sh /var/yp/ypxfr_2perday
32 1 * * * sh /var/yp/ypxfr_1perday
30 23 * * * /usr/bin/rdist -f .mirrorROOT.cron >>/tmp/rdist.log
2>>/tmp/rdist.err
0 8 * * * /mail.rdist.csh >/dev/null



thanks in advance for any help.

harald


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               Harald Volz
   - Netzwerk- und Systemadministration -
Max-Planck-Institut f. Biologische Kybernetik
              Spemannstr. 38
            D- 72076 Tuebingen
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Received on Wed Sep 11 1996 - 12:05:57 NZST

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