Re: cronjob stuck
Have you tried checking the root crontab? not a normal place to put stuff,
but worth checking out anyway...
Regards,
William
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Dale Amon wrote:
> Just ran across an interesting prob, wondered if
> anyone else has seen it. I added a repeating entry
> to /etc/cron.d/foo that ran every */5 minutes. I
> then tried to get rid of it... It will not die.
>
> I moved the file out of /etc/cron.d and it still
> is running.
>
> I cp'd the file and deleted the old one in case
> cron remembered the inode (rather a long shot).
> No change.
>
> I did /etc/init.d/cron stop; /etc/init.d/cron start;
> still it repeats.
>
> I did updatedb and locate cron; can't find it cached
> anywhere.
>
> cron doesn't seem to have any flush options and no
> indication that it should be caching across executions.
>
> I could certainly (I hope!) get rid of it by rebooting
> but I can't do that with this system at this time.
>
> Has anyone else had trouble making vixie cron STFU? Am
> I hallucinating? Is my brain in need of Coke and M&M's?
>
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