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Re: bad minute? -- SOLVED



"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote:
>
> When I edit my crontab (crontab -e) and try to save my changes, I get the
> following messages:
>
> "crontab.16288" 54L, 1391C written
> crontab: installing new crontab
> "/tmp/crontab.16288":1: bad minute
> errors in crontab file, can't install.
> Do you want to retry the same edit?
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> MAILTO=

MAILTO="" fixed the problem.  I just wasn't reading the man pages close
enough, I guess, because it clearly says that MAILTO="" is the proper way
to designate an empty MAILTO.

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steve
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