People,
I keep getting these emails, from multiple servers relating to entries in
/etc/crontab. AFAIK, I'm doing everything right (maybe not the best way
technically, but following what the documentation says):
-- using crontab -e
-- looks the same to me as a working crontab on another server
-- crontab package versions the same as a working crontab
-- checked `man -e5 crontab` to see I had the correct format
I've googled for about 3 hours, and nothing that looks like an answer,
despite the fact that the problem happens often enough to deserve a FAQ.
I did find where for some reason, vi stuck a 2 byte UTF-8 character in
for the tab key (why? why? why?), but replacing it with a space did not
help, the only difference now is that the wide character doesn't show
on the subject line in my Mozilla mailbox. In fact I replaced all the
tabs in /etc/crontab with space to no effect.
I'm all out of clue and this has my production servers snarled up. Any
ideas here?