problems with 'periodic' in 4.11 p-24

[Clayton Milos]

> On or about Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:25 , while attempting a
> Zarathustra emulation Luke Hollins thus spake:
>
>> Can you post your crontab? Maybe one line has the username twice .
>
> Boy - that was the hint that helped me find the problem.
>
> How I did this I do not know, but the /etc/crontab was
> duplicated in /var/cron/tabs/root.
>
> That was why the 'root: not found' message occured as the
> normal cron doesn't use that.
>
> I still don't know how I did this - particularly after admining
> FreeBSD systems since 1995.
>
> Maybe I did it in my sleep.
>
> But thanks for the comment as that put me on the correct track.
>
> Bill
>>

I have done strange things sysadmining under the influence of alcohol.
Once I even changed my BIOS password under the influence and it took me half 
an hour to figure out what I set it to.
I know it can be reset with a jumper but the hangover was suppressing that 
possibility too ;-)

-Clay