On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 12:32:55PM -0500, Jon Schewe (jpschewe at mtu.net) wrote: > I've noticed lately that when I make changes to my crontab I have to > edit a copy of the file and install it without using an editor. If I do > crontab -e, make my changes, exit my editor (vi), crontab says there's > no changes and doesn't install the crontab. Instead I end up saving the > file to my home directory and then doing 'crontab filename' and then it > gets installed. Anyone have any clues? I had this problem on a box before. I could see the tmp file being created in /tmp but then it wouldn't write it out to the actual cron file (/var/spool/cron/root). The problem was that /tmp was symlinked to /var/tmp. Once I put /tmp back, it worked fine. So, I assume it wasn't able to follow the symlinks. You may also want to check that you haven't run out of space in /tmp -- Amy Tanner amy at real-time.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 524 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020528/ffbde305/attachment.pgp