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Date:      10 Jan 2001 23:03:24 +0100
From:      Norbert Koch <nk@LF.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cronfile Not working
Message-ID:  <vzvgrnnjyr.fsf@lamia.LF.net>
In-Reply-To: <F258I7iJVwW3lDU74nd000159d0@hotmail.com>
References:  <F258I7iJVwW3lDU74nd000159d0@hotmail.com>

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"Brad W" <bradley_watts@hotmail.com> writes:

Hi!

> I created a cronfile on my FreeBSD (4.2 release) machine as follows:
[...]
> Now when attempt to view the crontab via (crontab -l), I get -->
[...]
> # (/tmp/crontab.rlDzdg1222 installed on Wed Jan 10 16:28:13 2001)
[...]
> ...Only there is no file /tmp/crontab.rlDzdg1222
> 
> Does anyone know what the problem might be?

There is absolutely no problem. The "crontab" in /tmp is only a copy
of your real crontab file (in /var/cron/tabs/<user>) created to
display it.

cron works on the real crontabs, and you'll stay a happy camper, iff
you don't mess with them :-)

norbert.


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