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? > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > IN MY NAME: Dale Amon, CEO/MD > No Mushroom clouds over Islandone Society > London and New York. www.islandone.org > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >