Re: How to create a crontab per user?

[ken@efficient.com (Ken Lauffenburger)]

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



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