Re: tiny bug in ucrond

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: alinden <http://www.localhost.de/~alinden>
 > Date: Tue  Jun 23,  7:53am
 >
 > robert writes:
 > 
 > >Also, for some reason, my crontab is not getting run at all.  I don't know if
 > >this junk at the end of the file has anything to do with it.  Interestingly,
 > >it is successfully running root's jobs.
 > 
 > This is strange, it does all work for me. Junk in the file is ignored,
 > so this isn't the reason. Normally, the crontab for a user must be
 > owned by root or the filename must match the owner, otherwise it is
 > ignored. Does the crontab file appear correctly in /var/lib/crontabs
 > after installing with crontab?

There is a crontab file.  It looks like it only has stuff from root's
crontab file -- I thought that that was normal.  Is it?

 > 
 > 
 > If yes, what exactly is written to syslog if it reads a crontab (does it
 > register the correct number of jobs)?

It says "5 jobs registered".  I haven't counted the actual number of jobs,
though, so I don't know if this is correct.  (I'm at work right now; it is
installed at home right now.)

 > Does it work if you set all file
 > owners to root? 

I will try this.

 > 
 > I have replaced it (version 0.3.5) at sunsite /pub/Linux/Incoming now.
 > Because they didn't update since a while it could be in daemons/cron
 > soon.

I'll download it.