On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:58 -0500, cothrige wrote: > I am a Debian newb, coming from Slackware, and am trying to set up a > cronjob as a user. In other systems all I did was crontab -e and then > added the job. After if I ran crontab -l it was listed right there > ready to go. However, this is not working in Debian. Cron is > installed and running, but when I enter the command and save it > crontab -l lists nothing at all, and nothing runs. Is there some step > I am overlooking? I have never had to do otherwise before, and have > tried reading online for Debian specific tips, but so far everything > comes back the same as I would expect. But, still, no cronjob. > > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I've no idea which version of Debian you're using but on my "stable" box: Linux ratty 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Sat Jul 15 08:52:57 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux I've been using (as a normal user) 'crontab' for a few years and the edit and list functions do exactly as you say/expect. $ dpkg -l | grep cron ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background processing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
