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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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