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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Annoying email from dcron
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:32:38
Message-Id: 1134865568.9114.16.camel@camille.espersunited.com
1 I was having some problems with dcron randomly shutting down. I
2 remerged dcron this afternoon and it's running just fine except that I
3 get this annoying email every few minutes:
4
5 unable to create /var/spool/cron/crontabs/michael.new: File exists
6
7
8 The problem is that I can't delete the file because it doesn't actually
9 exist.
10
11 How do I get rid of this annoying error?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying email from dcron Jonathan Wright <mail@×××××××××.uk>