On 10 Sep 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I'm using the current testing distribution. Crontab doesn't work for me; > > at least it won't create a new crontab file, either as user or as root > > (although it has removed my own crontab!). > > > > Is this a known bug or should I submit it? > > Obvious question: is your VISUAL (and/or EDITOR) set? > I'm on testing as well, and crontab -e creates new files just fine, as > root and as ordinary user. > > FWIW, I've seen this happen a couple of times on slowaris, but I never > bothered to investigate. Just touch /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<user>, and > then crontab -e will work (or at least it does for me). > > Dima > -- > We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris > King > >
No, the problem isn't with editing crontab. I can do this and save it, but when I exit from the editor it says that no changes have been made to the file so I'm back where I started. The rewritten crontab is saved to ~/tmp/ but then it just disappears. I know I could edit the file in /var/spool/cron/crontab/ but you are not supposed to do that. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Debian GNU/Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. [Laurens van der Post]
