Re: Crontab
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 wtopa@ix.netcom.com wrote:
:
: I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured
: out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the
: /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things.
: I now have 2 questions,
I think you are mistaken, but continue on ...
: 1. How do I get _that_ /etc/crontab to run?
/etc/crontab is the system crontab - whatever you put in there will be
run when you say so, period. Note that an entry in /etc/crontab has an
extra entry, the "user" field. This is documented in "man 5 crontab",
which is clearly documented in my cron manpage.
: 2. Where do I find docs on this _new_ way of running cron. There are
: no man pages. ( yes I have man packages installed)
If you have no manpage for cron you probably haven't installed cron, or
something is severly hosed. Try (re)installing the "cron" package.
FWIW, "crontab -e" works fine here.
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