here's cron log file that I have

[Kevin Hodle]

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 at aos5.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at tarcanfel.org] 
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:34 PM
To: Kevin Hodle
Cc: Super-User; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: here's cron log file that I have

Quoting Kevin Hodle <kevinh at 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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