Crontab grows exponentially

[bert]

Every time cpanel runs the /scripts/upcp script at night, it adds these lines to the crontab:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/scripts/.crontab installed on Tue Sep 17 09:07:14 2002)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)


It grows every day, with every single update to the point of creating a massive file. This behavior has been the same for months now if not years, but I guess no one cares about this at all?

Can anyone do a crontab -e and tell me how many entries like the one above you have in your cron?

Thanks

[feanor]

somewhere between 150 and 385,235,203 lines on any machine I've seen recently.

Lovely party, pity I wasn't invited.

Check Bugzilla?

[bert]

lol


No wonder why I hate the auto updates

[Juanra]

Hum, perhaps if we recompiled crontab.c from source we could get rid of those lines...

[Brad]

Yes, already a thread here too..

http://forums.cpanel.net/read.php?TID=4507

[bdraco]

This will fix itself after TWO cpanel updates

[bert]

Great! Thanks Nick. This has gone on for about 4 to 6 months now, it will be great to get rid of those lines