On 02/01/2012 09:50 AM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote:
> Forum: CFEngine Help
> Subject: Re: cfengine causing crontab -e to crash..?
> Author: towster
> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24693,24704#msg-24704
> 
> Wow. Ok here is what was going on. 
> 
> In cfengine_stdlib.cf there is a bundle "cronjob" that adds a new cron entry 
> and will HUP "cron". 
> I needed to remove a cronjob and there is no bundle in the stdlib to do that. 
> I copied the bundle 
> out of the stdlib and created a similar but opposite bundle to remove the 
> cron jobs.
> 
> Now this stanza was firing every run and for some reason picking up not just 
> "cron" but also "crontab"
> 
> processes:
>      "cron"
>          comment => "Most crons need to be huped after file changes",
>          signals => { "hup" };

cron will match on crontab as well. I think it will also match if you
did vim mycronfile since cron was in the process string.

-- 
Nick Anderson <n...@cmdln.org>
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