[ale] why cron from /etc/crontab would reply on user 'uucp'

[Jerry Z. Yu]

Thanks. I did mean 'other jobs in logrotate.d'. sorry for the confusion.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Joe Steele wrote:

#On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
#
#> since the other job didn't run either, I assume crontab actually try to
#> sort of 'compile' all entries under /etc/logrotate.d for cron.daily, then
#> crapped out because of uucp entries failed?
#
#It's not clear what you mean by 'other job didn't run either':
#
#If you mean other logrotate jobs in /etc/logrotate.d/, then yes, I
#suspect the error would cause logrotate to quit prematurely without
#rotating all your logs.
#
#If you mean other cron jobs, then no, I don't think the error should
#affect the execution of any cron job except for
#/etc/cron.daily/logrotate.
#
#--Joe
#

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