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sphen

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Registered: 2020-06-13

Posts: 45

error removing cron

running 11.2.19 and tried to remove cron from within the gui and it just showed an error. ended up creating a file in the cron folder with the error as its name.

                                               ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                                               │ Error removing jobs from /var/spool/cron/crontabs/  │
                                               │ Error: Expected at least 5 tokens for --menu, have  │
                                               │ 4.                                                  │
                                               │ Use --help to list options.                         │
                                               │                                                     │
                                               │                                                     │
                                               │                                                     │
                                               │                                                     │
                                               │                                                     │
                                               ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
                                               │                     <  OK  >                        │
                                               └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

[root@esxi2:/var/spool/cron/crontabs] ls -al
total 12
----------    1 root     root             0 Sep 15 13:28 ?Error: Expected at least 5 tokens for --menu, have 4.?Use --help to list options.
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           512 Sep 15 13:28 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           512 Sep 15 11:00 ..
-r--r--r-T    1 root     root           324 Apr  3  2018 root

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,055

Re: error removing cron

Could be some bug, we'll check that.