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Old 01-08-2003, 04:33 PM   #1
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Bad Cron


my friend...way smarter than me with linux gave me a cron job...every five minutes my cdrom ejects...i cant kill it!! help!
 
Old 01-08-2003, 04:57 PM   #2
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Well, what's the cron job?
 
Old 01-08-2003, 06:43 PM   #3
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What account did he do it from? Log into that account and type crontab -e,
there could be a line something like 5 * * * * eject /dev/hdc or something similar, if there is, erase it.
 
  


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