On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:59:27PM +0100, Ina&Frank wrote: >I hope I'm doing right to 'report' this.
No better way to keep opensource open. :) There are actually two types of cron files. The /etc/crontab type and the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/* type. The former is run by root, as a particular user, the user field is required to so crond knows which user to run it as. The latter can be changed by users and doesn't need a user identifier. You might not have seen "man 5 crontab" try setting alias man='man -a' first then you'll have an option to see all the manpages. If you are having problems with "crontab -e" it's probably related to how vim and crontab use inode numbers, not worth understanding (fixes welcome). The easy solution in this case is to create a file /tmp/cron with your crons in it then run "crontab /tmp/cron" to install it as a user cron, in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ I include a line like this: 0 4 * * * crontab -l > ~/crontab-$LOGNAME-`hostname -f` and (after it appears) just edit 'crontab-geo-trot.local' and 'crontab crontab-geo-trot.local' when I'm done. // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
