Conference turris::digital_unix

9536.0. ""uucp crontab file has an error in it" after upd." by MUNICH::CUZUM () Thu Apr 17 1997 10:40

Hi, unix-wizards,

a customer updated his system from V3.0 to V3.2. Since the day he did
the update he gets mails like this:

>From root Wed Mar 26 15:48:20 1997
Received: by edv; id AA00517; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:48:19 +0100
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:48:19 +0100
From: system PRIVILEGED account <root>
Message-Id: <9703261448.AA00517@edv>
Apparently-To: uucp

Your crontab file has an error in it.
        uucp
        unexpected symbol found
This entry has been ignored.

>From root Wed Mar 26 15:52:42 1997
Received: by edv; id AA02277; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:52:41 +0100
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:52:41 +0100
From: system PRIVILEGED account <root>
Message-Id: <9703261452.AA02277@edv>
Apparently-To: uucp

Your crontab file has an error in it.
        uucp
        unexpected symbol found
This entry has been ignored.

>From root Wed Mar 26 16:06:27 1997
Received: by edv; id AA00517; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:06:27 +0100
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:06:27 +0100
From: system PRIVILEGED account <root>
Message-Id: <9703261506.AA00517@edv>
Apparently-To: uucp

Your crontab file has an error in it.
        uucp
        unexpected symbol found
This entry has been ignored.

.......

I checked and found out the following things:

# pwd
/usr/var/spool/cron/crontabs
# ls -l
...
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system       418 Feb  3  1995 cronuucp
...
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     system        10 Mdr 26  1995 uucp -> ./cronuucp
# more cronuucp
uucp
#
# (c) Copyright 1990, OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC.
# ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
#
#       @(#)cronuucp    3.1     (ULTRIX/OSF)    8/20/91
#
# OSF/1 Release 1.0
#
#
# uucp crontab file
#
#48 8,12,16 * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.admin > /dev/null
#45 23 * * * ulimit 5000; /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.cleanu > /dev/null
#25,55 * * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hour > /dev/null
#20,50 * * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.poll > /dev/null

(this file has the same checksum as mine on V4.0, so I think that's ok).

Does any of you know about this problem or do you have any ideas related
to this?

Regards,

Corina

Hi,

This was already IPMT'd/qar'd and fixed in 4.0.  Just remove the uucp
at the top of the file and that will fix the problem.

-Brian
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]

    Hi, Brian,
    
    thank-you for your quick help.
    
    Best regards,
    
    Corina