On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > > Cron thought I was lonely and started sending me mail every minute :-( > The cause is a bug in /etc/crontab: the last line must be > * * * * * root atrun -d >
at least * * * * * root atrun -l 0.5 -d instead of * * * * * root atrun 0.5 -d but this is in the at's postinst script and I don't know why it didn't work: vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv open(OI,"$etc/crontab") || die "Opening $etc/crontab to deinstall atrun: $!\n"; @crontab=<OI>; close(OI); $newentry="* *\t* * *\troot\tatrun -d -l 0.5\n"; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It's me, Manolo!