RedHat 8.0 and crontab

[Tim Wunder]

On 3/6/2003 2:12 AM, someone claiming to be 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.
> 

Works for me, RH8.0

> In Mandrake, one opens a terminal and runs:
> 
> 	export EDITOR=gedit
> 	crontab -e
> 

In RedHat 8.0, I just use
	crontab -e

I believe the default EDITOR is vim (or plain vi -- :wq saves and quits)

> 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. 
> 

Is this just your user, or other users, too. Can root edit his own crontab?

> Has anyone else had the same experience with RedHat 8? Is there a solution? Am 
> I forgetting something in RedHat?
> 

I'm with Joel on this, check your perms.

HTH,
Tim