[8108] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3M: /etc/cron
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darrin B. Jewell)
Thu Sep 5 03:38:42 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: jewell@fenchurch.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 91 03:38:58 EDT
From: Darrin B. Jewell <jewell@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: walter-jon-williams
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3M (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
locate crontab files
What's wrong:
the new release moved crontab and crontab.local to the
/etc/ directory from /usr/lib/ directory
/usr/lib is a symbolic link to /srvd/usr/lib /* which is fine */
/srvd/usr/lib/crontab is a symbolic link to
/site/usr/lib/crontab /* which no longer exists */
the same is for crontab.local
also, part of the man page for cron still indicates /usr/lib/crontab
is used, while in the FILES section, /etc/crontab is correctly reported.
What should have happened:
/srvd/usr/lib/crontab should point to /etc/crontab
if necessary, otherwise /srvd/usr/lib/crontab should be deleted.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
/etc/crontab
/srvd/usr/man/man8/cron.8
