Amy Tanner wrote: > 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. I do have such a setup, because I kept running out of space on /. I'll have to try that. Thanks. -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39