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Date:      Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:01:45 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        Charlie Root <root@hermes.niicommunications.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cron
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103262051100.38631-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103270238.f2R2cvB72233@hermes.niicommunications.com>

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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).

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