Cron auto-generate bug

[Graham Beneke]

Hi

I have been having problems with various CoovaAP devices locking up and 
failing to boot after a few months of deployment.

When viewing the syslog i found the following:

user.info : /etc/init.d/S90chilli: 1: cannot create 
/etc/chilli/main.conf: No space left on device
user.info : touch: /etc/chilli/local.conf: No space left on device
kern.crit kernel: mini_fo: create_sto_file: ERROR creating sto file.
user.info : touch: /etc/chilli/hs.conf: No space left on device
kern.crit kernel: mini_fo: create_sto_file: ERROR creating sto file.
user.info : coova-chilli: Error opening configuration file 
'/etc/chilli/hs.conf'

Further investigation revealed that an extra line that I had added to 
/etc/crontabs/root had got mangled and duplicated thousands of times but 
one of the start-up scripts.

This resulted in the flash filling up and the device being unable to start.

How should I be adding cron items to avoid them being mangled?

regards
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Graham Beneke
Apolix Internet Services
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