RedHat 8.0 and crontab

[Joel Hammer]

This sounds like a permissions problem.

Just free associating here: What are the permissions on your crontab (which
crontab)?

Mine (Caldera) are:
---s--x--x   1 root     root        23388 Feb 17  2000 /usr/bin/crontab  

On redhat they are:
rwsr-x-r-x

What are the permissions of /var/spool/cron ?
Mine are:

drwx------   2 root     root      

Joel



jusOn Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:12:37PM -0800, Iraj Medifar wrote:
> Hi everyone:
> 
> I wonder if anyone has experienced that RedHat 8.0 does not allow a user to 
> edit his crontab. It looks strange that the same edit on another box with 
> Mandrake 8.2 does work.
> 
> In Mandrake, one opens a terminal and runs:
> 
> 	export EDITOR=gedit
> 	crontab -e
> 
> Then follows by commands and saves the changes. That's it.
> 
> In RedHat 8.0, the same action results in this message: "no changes made to 
> crontab".  You get the same message even when you log in as root and try to 
> edit the user's crontab. 
> 
> Has anyone else had the same experience with RedHat 8? Is there a solution? Am 
> I forgetting something in RedHat?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> -- 
> Iraj Medifar
> Home - Linux Desk
> irajmedifar at peoplepc.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-users mailing list
> Linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users