On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:46, Matthew Benjamin wrote: >Can someone tell me if they have run into this problem before? I am > trying to create a cron job, to no avail. Anytime I go to create the > job (as root) I type crontab -e, put the commands in however when it is > time to save I save what I believe should be successful. When I type > the command crontab -l, it says no crontab for root. > >Also after saving the crontab (:wq), I get the following message, > "crontab: no changes made to crontab" without the quotes. I have > restarted the cron daemon to no avail. This walks and quacks about like the duck I was pursueing earlier. I too had no /etc/crontab file after a bare metal FC6 install. I finally touched the file, re-ran kcron, and then got a valid file written by kcron, or so the trailer in the file claims. Actually, I could restart the cron daemon but service always said the shutdown stage failed, and the startup was ok. But I could ps -ea|grep cron and come back empty too. I wonder what install combo manages to trigger this? -- Cheers, Gene
