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On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:54:24AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:07:26AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> >> I have the following configured to back up my laptop to my file server:
> >> 
> >> root@galahad:~# cat /etc/cron.d/backup 
> >> MAILTO=mart@vdwege.eu
> >> #00 04 * * * root /usr/sbin/btrbk --verbose --format=long run
> >> 
> >> Note: it is currently disabled.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> And yet I find this in /var/log/btrbk.log:
> >> 
> >> 2017-03-12T20:16:28+0100 startup v0.24.0 - - - - # btrbk command line client, version 0.24.0
> >
> > Another place to check is in /var/spool/cron/crontabs. Perhaps the
> > entry slipped in via some `crontab -e' or similar.
> >
> Assume I checked those :)

Now I do :)

Well, no clue. But it's a script, so you could just insert some
debugging stuff (like, for example, reporting its parent PID
when it's started again)? So you might catch the ghosts parent?

Cheers
 - t

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Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 09:10 +0200
  Re: Ghost cronjob <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-03 09:20 +0200
    Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 10:00 +0200
      Re: Ghost cronjob <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-03 11:30 +0200
        Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 12:10 +0200
  Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 09:20 +0200
  Re: Ghost cronjob David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-03 16:50 +0200
    Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 18:40 +0200
  Re: Ghost cronjob Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-05-03 18:50 +0200
    Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 20:20 +0200
      Re: Ghost cronjob Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-05-03 20:40 +0200
        Re: Ghost cronjob <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-03 21:40 +0200
        Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 22:00 +0200
          Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-04 08:50 +0200
            Re: Ghost cronjob Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2021-05-04 15:50 +0200
              Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-04 17:10 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-04 18:10 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-04 20:00 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-04 21:30 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-05 04:50 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2021-05-08 10:20 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-08 12:00 +0200

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