> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:56:02PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: >> This is a strange way to want to set a crontab...
Dave Sherohman wrote: > Actually, considering that it's how crontab expects to work if no flags are > given, I suspect that `crontab <filename>` is the most historically standard/ > normal way to use it. Doh, yes - just like ln is "normally" used for creating hard links! >> Why do you want to do this anyway? Isn't it simpler to edit the >> crontab directly with "crontab -e"? > Don't know if it's why the OP was doing it this way but potato's elvis > returns an exit status of 1 even if it exits cleanly. crontab sees this, > assumes an error, and doesn't update anything. So, if elvis is your default > editor, `crontab -e` doesn't work. (This has been fixed in woody.) Wasn't the problem that "crontab -e" did work and "crontab <file>" didn't? (If it *is* an editor problem, the solution is of course to start with "export EDITOR=emacs" - or nano, or whatever - though if you can write working crontabs, odds are you'll probably know this.) -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd
