[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: crontab error



On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, guy keren wrote:


Well, see, crontab specifically asks to use crontab -e , for good reasons,
one of which is that crontab -e will open /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
and not /etc/crontab. That whole mechanism is a RedHat (and prolly debian
too) mechanism of automating some stuff in a more readable format (for
root only), and has bugs probably.

For root, I also use this mechanism by adding the appropriate cron jobs as
executable shell scripts in the appropriate /etc/cron.whatever dir.

I will investigate on what the bug is.

--Ariel

> 
> On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Ariel Biener wrote:
> 
> > This is NOT where you put crontab entries, nor is this the format for
> > crontab (albeit close).
> 
> the following is a work-around, not an answer to "why this problem occures
> in the first place" (even thought you're right - he shouldn't have tried
> doing what he did, the way he did). technically, and according to the
> manual page, this should work, and sounds like a crond bug. or it is
> possible that he used a tab instead f a space somewhere, and this confused
> crond?
> 
> guy
> 

--
Ariel Biener
e-mail: ariel@post.tau.ac.il           Work phone: 03-640608
fingerprint = 07 D1 E5 3E EF 6D E5 82 0B E9 21 D4 3C 7D 8B BC


=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request@linux.org.il with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request@linux.org.il