RedHat 8.0 and crontab

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Iraj Medifar wrote:
> Thank you Joel, turns out vi does the trick! But here's what kind of baffles
> me. With RedHat 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1, I always switched to gedit to edit my
> crontab and never had a problem. In fact a well-known QUE manual on RedHat
> 6.2 suggested the use of gedit for those (like me) who didn't feel very
> comfortable with vi. In any event, I used vi and it worked and that's what
> matters. Thanks a lot again for the helpful hint.

My guess is that gedit isn't able to write to /var/spool/cron

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