Hello Dennis: I believe you are mistaken about crontab -e. I use it all the time.
Firstly make sure the cron or anacron package is installed. The documentation is in /usr/doc. There is also a HOWTO directory you may want to check out. Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured > out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the > /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things. > I now have 2 questions, > 1. How do I get _that_ /etc/crontab to run? > 2. Where do I find docs on this _new_ way of running cron. There are > no man pages. ( yes I have man packages installed) > > Thanks for the pointers! > > -- > A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program > in than some that do. > -- Dennis M. Ritchie > _______________________________________________________ > Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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