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Subject: project.sipb.readonly not being updated
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project.sipb.readonly             536872539 RO     109826 K  On-line
    Creation    Fri Jun 11 06:53:11 1993
    Last Update Fri Jun 11 06:53:11 1993

% rsh ronald-ann -l root tail -1 /etc/crontab
0 5 * * *       root    /var/usr/local/sync/synclocker

% rsh ronald-ann -l root ls -lc /etc/crontab
-r--r--r--  1 root          508 Jun  7 20:46 /etc/crontab

% rsh ronald-ann -l root 'ps ux | grep cron'
root       390  0.0  0.3   56   40 ?  I      1:42 /etc/cron

% rsh ronald-ann -l root ls -lu /var/usr/local/sync/synclocker
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root         4978 Jun  8 22:09 /var/usr/local/sync/synclocker

I think the problem is that Ultrix doesn't want a username in the
sixth field of a crontab line, as BSD does. So I think cron is trying
to run a program named "root".

Matt