Hope it wasn't a production server. Otherwise, it's hilarious.
From the manpage, the crontab has two forms:
crontab
crontab [-u user] file crontab [-u user] { -l | -r | -e }
The first form of this command is used to install a new crontab from some named file or standard input if the pseudo-filename `-' is given.
It's possible the command above got interpreted as the first form and a new crontab with just ; inside of it was installed.
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Apart from guess above, I have no idea. But, it's interesting. Glad I am no longer around servers.
Thanks for the reply! Well thankfully we were working in our development server so everyone is safe!
I wasn't aware of the first form so it's something new for me that I need to look up. Thanks for the help!
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Hope it wasn't a production server. Otherwise, it's hilarious.
From the manpage, the
crontabhas two forms:It's possible the command above got interpreted as the first form and a new crontab with just
;inside of it was installed.Apart from guess above, I have no idea. But, it's interesting. Glad I am no longer around servers.
Thanks for the reply! Well thankfully we were working in our development server so everyone is safe!
I wasn't aware of the first form so it's something new for me that I need to look up. Thanks for the help!