Re: Bug in crontab? Won't work here

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Anthony Campbell (a.campbell@doctors.org.uk) spake thusly:
> I'm using the current testing distribution. Crontab doesn't work for me;
> at least it won't create a new crontab file, either as user or as root
> (although it has removed my own crontab!).
> 
> Is this a known bug or should I submit it?

Obvious question: is your VISUAL (and/or EDITOR) set?
I'm on testing as well, and crontab -e creates new files just fine, as
root and as ordinary user.

FWIW, I've seen this happen a couple of times on slowaris, but I never
bothered to investigate. Just touch /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<user>, and 
then crontab -e will work (or at least it does for me).

Dima
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