-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05-Sep-2002/14:12 -0500, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >One more detail - don't pull up crontab in vi. Use crontab -e >It's safer, locks the file, and installs it when done.
You can only edit your own crontab or the crontab of a specific user if you use "crontab -e". The /etc/crontab file does not belong to a specific user (root's crontab is /var/spool/cron/root) so "crontab -e" will not let you edit it. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD8DBQE9d+EWpCpg3WyUI50RAvktAJ9l8p2znJm9H7n18z2Cfn42bqe/ywCeNvTv kx2r7gUXyXDSccAW2931d50= =7Jzm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
