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
eh?
crontab -e works fine here.....
> /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things.
> I now have 2 questions,
> 1. How do I get _that_ /etc/crontab to run?
> 2. Where do I find docs on this _new_ way of running cron. There are
> no man pages. ( yes I have man packages installed)
man crontab works fine here...
Have you the cron package installed? this includes cron
Matthew
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