"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Jardine wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:03:00PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
> > > When I edit my crontab (crontab -e) and try to save my changes, I get the
> > > following messages:
> > >
> > > "crontab.16288" 54L, 1391C written
> > > crontab: installing new crontab
> > > "/tmp/crontab.16288":1: bad minute
> > > errors in crontab file, can't install.
> > > Do you want to retry the same edit?
> > >
> > ^^
> > Does it dislike octal numbers?
>
> huh?
numbers beginning with zero (with at least one number after that) are
considered octal numbers in C. Not sure if it applies here (if cron
would think it's octal number, but if it would why would it read it is
octal zero (which is the same as any other zero...))
erik
