On 02/01/2012 10:08 AM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote:
> Forum: CFEngine Help
> Subject: Re: cfengine causing crontab -e to crash..?
> Author: mikesphar
> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24693,24706#msg-24706
> 
> Try to see if you can do a more specific match for just the cron daemon, and 
> not any processes with "cron" in their name.   You might need to experiment 
> on your systems to see what the process table looks like while someone is 
> doing a crontab -e.  (Which in turn might require some OS-specific classes to 
> account for slight differences.)
> 
> On the system I'm on at the moment for example, it looks like I should be 
> able to match "/usr/sbin/cron" to avoid also matching again "crontab -e" or 
> "vi /var/spool/cron/foo" or the like.

Its also something that should probably be changed in the stdlib.


-- 
Nick Anderson <n...@cmdln.org>
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