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From: Christopher L. Everett (ceverett_at_ceverett.com)
Date: 07/23/04

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    People,

    I keep getting these emails, from multiple servers relating to entries in
    /etc/crontab. AFAIK, I'm doing everything right (maybe not the best way
    technically, but following what the documentation says):

      -- using crontab -e
      -- looks the same to me as a working crontab on another server
      -- crontab package versions the same as a working crontab
      -- checked `man -e5 crontab` to see I had the correct format

    I've googled for about 3 hours, and nothing that looks like an answer,
    despite the fact that the problem happens often enough to deserve a FAQ.

    I did find where for some reason, vi stuck a 2 byte UTF-8 character in
    for the tab key (why? why? why?), but replacing it with a space did not
    help, the only difference now is that the wide character doesn't show
    on the subject line in my Mozilla mailbox. In fact I replaced all the
    tabs in /etc/crontab with space to no effect.

    I'm all out of clue and this has my production servers snarled up. Any
    ideas here? 

    -- 
Christopher L. Everett
Chief Technology Officer                               www.medbanner.com
MedBanner, Inc.                                          www.physemp.com
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