Subject: RE: here's cron log file that I have Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:00:26 -0600 Message-ID: <E0EDC9B3C760B44DADD96F6D4F1CAE960190132A@Mail.aos5.com> From: "Kevin Hodle" <kevinh@aos5.com>
This is interesting. I have never had any troubles with editing the
/etc/crontab file manually (and then kill -HUP'ing crond), all the jobs
I put in it seem to run fine. I tried the crontab -e and it appears to
load /etc/crontab in vi, but from a location in /tmp... Could you
elaborate on the reasoning for this?
Thanks!
Kevin Hodle
CCNA, Network+, A+
Alexander Open Systems
Network Operations Center
kevinh@aos5.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:34 PM
To: Kevin Hodle
Cc: Super-User; kclug@kclug.org
Subject: RE: here's cron log file that I have
Quoting Kevin Hodle <kevinh@aos5.com>:
> If you havent already tried, I would put the entry in /etc/crontab
> instead of wherever you already have it. There should already be a
> /etc/crontab with examples for you to look at (although I could be
> wrong, but redhat and suse definitely will have it).
In both redhat and mandrake, and I assume in most Unices, you should
not edit /etc/crontab, but should use the command "crontab -e".
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