1. crontab entries not executing; problem with limit in /etc/csh.cshrc ?
Hello:
I'm getting closer to a solution of my crontab problem, but it's still
not resolved. I'm using vixie-cron with SHELL=/bin/tcsh in my crontab
file. Everything worked fine for months until recently. Now, without
having changed the crontab file or any of the commands called by it, I
get
limit: coredumpsize: Can't set limit
for each line in my personal crontab file. This is apparently in
response to the line
limit coredumpsize 1000000
in /etc/csh.cshrc. The crontab entries sometimes gets executed;
sometimes not. I even experimented with a very simple
0 13 * * * mkdir /home/alan/crontest
line, with the same bizarre behavior. In any case, I don't have a
working crontab and I'd like to get it back up and running.
A few questions/observations:
1) Entries in root's crontab don't generate this response. (Is there
some deny or allow file I should be looking for?)
2) This never used to happen until I installed a new bash. If I'm
using tcsh, why on earth would this make a difference? Maybe I'm wrong
about the bash; something *else* I changed right around the same time
as installing the new bash? sh-utils perhaps? (Clearly grasping here.)
3) I never knew you *could* limit the coredumpsize until this started,
but don't really want to disable or redefine the limit command, as one
respondent suggested. (I think he was suggesting something like alias
crontab "" in /etc/csh.cshrc.) Again, why would this start all of a
sudden? Surely the `limit coredumpsize' line has been there in
/etc/csh.cshrc all along.
Please help. I'm stumped.
Also, for the simple practical reason that my ISP has a very short
attention span with respect to the Usenet, please send a cc to
Thanks,
--Alan Vlach
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