On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > I'm having trouble understanding how to create a crontab on a per-user > basis. I have tried the standard > > crontab -e > > ... this allows me to think I am editing a personal crontab, but then > when I save and quit, I get the following: > > wrote /tmp/crontab.XXXXa28090, 2 lines, 3 chars > crontab: "/usr/bin/vi" exited with status 1
you say "save and quit". my guess is you're typing :w to save and then :q to quit. the quit makes vi exit with a status code of 1. 'crontab -e' interprets this as "abort". try :x - this saves and exits with a status of 0. craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
