Re: cron/runq

[Tero Hanninen <mot@algonet.se>]

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:

> I'm getting mail every 20 min. complaining the runq hasn't run.
> This is from cron on behalf of root.  As root, I "crontab -l"
> and get <NULL> output (also "ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs"
> showns no entry for root).  So I "cd /var/spool/cron/crontabs;
> grep rung *" and see an entry in mail, then "su - mail" and
> "crontab -l >mail.crtb;vi mail.crtb #commenting the runq entry
> out; crontab mail.crtb; crontab -l # and see that the runq
> entry is gone"  but the mail still comes every 20 minutes.
> I'm sooooooooooo confused.

As root say:

crontab -u mail -r 
(this removes the crontab for user mail)

or add the following to your mail crontab:

MAILTO="" 
(this won't remove the crontab, but no mail will be sent to user)

See 'man 5 crontab' for further information.

Tero

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