> > According to Mike Bell: While burning my CPU.
> > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > Thanks for your reply. The problem I am having is that everytime I boot up
> Probably the easiest way is to boot from the disks you used for setup (a
> boot disk and a root disk), mount your linux partition, and manualy edit
> the crontab (in /var/spool/cron/crontabs)
> You may need to create a file called .update.cron or something. I
> usually keep a version of it with a tildy at the end, for when I want to
> edit my crontabs manually. But I just upgraded my linux box and its
> gone, so RTFM or just experiment with anything that looks right.
> You must have missed his first reply, he said that does'nt work, the machine
> does'ent stay up long enough even to login.
> It won't work with just a bootdisk. You will need a bootdisk/rootdisk
> combination, lika a Slackware bootdisk, and a Slackware rescue root disk
> (this one includes vi and other utilities). I don't know about Red Hat,
> but I suppose they have a similar thing.
That's exactly what I just said! Read above "boot disk AND a root disk"
I realized that mounting his partition as root would cause the same
problem. Kids today, nobody listens to what anybody else says.
