From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 19: 2: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3894D37B719 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA74867; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:01:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:01:45 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Charlie Root Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron In-Reply-To: <200103270238.f2R2cvB72233@hermes.niicommunications.com> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charlie Root wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > greetings, > > this phenomneon just started. When I use crontab -u username -e, > in this case root, I get the following information back from > cron (and my changes do not take effect): > > "crontab.QDcifpV515" 12L, 515C written > crontab: temp file must be edited in place > > anyone? thanks. The temp file moved or was deleted then re-linked. Did you change your default editor? Maybe your editor (or invocation thereof) is renaming the temp file (and/or you enabled backups in your editor). > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message