please cc. to me [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi.
I had the stupid idea to set EDITOR=my-prog and execute crontab -e to be able to "edit" crontabs in the right way, i.e. without touching the crontab-files directly but with my own "editor" (here a cron-gui-interface) 1. this doesn't work, since my c-program returns too quickly or too slow, anyway crontab *seldomly* "installs" the new file, mostly says it "didn't change". 2. I tried it with "vi" as editor and if I was fast enough to enter ":wq", crontab doesn't install it. (ok. i didn't change a thing but the file was written, accessed, whatever and crontab should be installed. if you do it slowly, crontab installs it.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home# crontab -e crontab: installing new crontab [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home# crontab -e crontab: no changes made to crontab second time I was fast enough typing ":wq" 3. Anyway: any recommendations how to modify crontab from a c-program without messing with crontabs/user files? I know gcrontab accesses them directly. but I thought this shouldn't be dnoe. thanks for any help. cheers, tobias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
