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decmips 7.2C: /usr/lib/crontab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Dec 2 17:57:45 1990
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 90 17:57:26 EST
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: quicksilver
Type and version: KN01 7.2C
Display type: PM-MONO
What were you trying to do?
look at /etc/crontab
What's wrong:
It has lines which use user-names for programs. I belive the
cron in /etc/cron does not understand this format for names, as it
doesn't have the SCCS ident string from getpwent.
nm on /lib/libc.a shows:
/lib/libc.a:getpwent.o: 00000000 T getpwnam
That getpwent.o has a SCCS id string, which does not appear in /etc/cron:
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp]
% ar xv /lib/libc.a getpwent.o
x - getpwent.o
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp]
% what getpwent.o
getpwent.o
getpwent.c 4.2 (Ultrix) 11/4/88
[{1}quicksilver:/tmp]
% what /etc/cron
/etc/cron
cron.c 4.8 (Berkeley) 8/14/83
data.c 4.1 (ULTRIX) 11/23/87
freopen.c 4.1 ULTRIX 11/23/87
ctype.c 4.1 ULTRIX 2/15/88
signal.c 4.2 ULTRIX 1/20/88
ctime.c 4.1 (ULTRIX) 11/23/87
malloc.c 4.2 (ULTRIX) 7/15/88
time.c 4.1 (ULTRIX) 11/23/87
fclose.c 4.1 (ULTRIX) 11/23/87
sleep.c 4.4 (ULTRIX) 11/4/88
filbuf.c 4.1 ULTRIX 11/23/87
errlst.c 4.1 ULTRIX 11/23/87
strlen.c 4.1 (ULTRIX) 7/12/88
doopen.c 4.1 ULTRIX 11/23/87
getstdiobuf.c 4.1 (ULTRIX) 11/23/87
What should have happened:
The format used by cron and the file in crontab should match.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
cron(8), crontab(5)
