cronjob stuck

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

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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