On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 [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,
I think you are mistaken, but continue on ... : 1. How do I get _that_ /etc/crontab to run? /etc/crontab is the system crontab - whatever you put in there will be run when you say so, period. Note that an entry in /etc/crontab has an extra entry, the "user" field. This is documented in "man 5 crontab", which is clearly documented in my cron manpage. : 2. Where do I find docs on this _new_ way of running cron. There are : no man pages. ( yes I have man packages installed) If you have no manpage for cron you probably haven't installed cron, or something is severly hosed. Try (re)installing the "cron" package. FWIW, "crontab -e" works fine here. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
