On our Dec Unix 3.2, we noticed something really peculiar using PICO
with crontab -e, and I wondered if this was something already known.
It appears that if you edit the root crontab, and save the temporary
file before exiting (CTRL-O) cron does not properly save the file, or it
creates TWO cron files, both running without the changes in place.
Over the last vacation period, we disabled a program from running by
putting a # in front of it, only to find out that it still ran, in fact,
two simultanous copies of it ran, destroying each other's output!
-turgut
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Turgut Kalfaoglu
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Received on Sat Apr 18 1998 - 09:39:52 NZST