On Oct 11, 12:11am, Craig Sanders wrote: > Subject: Re: How to create a crontab per user? > On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > > > I'm having trouble understanding how to create a crontab on a per-user > > basis. I have tried the standard > > > > crontab -e > > > > ... this allows me to think I am editing a personal crontab, but then > > when I save and quit, I get the following: > > > > wrote /tmp/crontab.XXXXa28090, 2 lines, 3 chars > > crontab: "/usr/bin/vi" exited with status 1 > > you say "save and quit". my guess is you're typing :w to save and then :q > to quit.
Actually I was using ZZ to save and quit. > > the quit makes vi exit with a status code of 1. 'crontab -e' interprets > this as "abort". > > try :x - this saves and exits with a status of 0. Thanks for the suggestion; I tried it, but same result. BTW, I thought this might be some permissions problem. I tried changing the permissions on the /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory to 777, but no luck. > > craig --ken -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
