On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:30, Gordon Messmer wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Oh yeah? That file DID NOT exist until I ran kcron yesterday morning >> to generate some scheduled work for root. > >You don't need to yell at me, Gene. I did a clean install, just like >you, and my /etc/crontab looks the way it should. > Oh, sorry, I forgot that was the equ of yelling. >> In fact, kcron crashed the first >> 2-3 times I ran it because it was missing. I finally touched it, and >> this was then written by kcron: > >kcron wrote the same contents as the default crontab? I tried to look at it with vim, and less, it was empty in vim (which also claimed it was a new file) so I quit, less said it didn't exist, so I touched it. And when I was done with kcron, it apparently wrote what you saw, I did not edit it, I just included it in my message. Does the default /etc/crontab claim it was written with kcron? This one did as you saw, but clipped from your reply. I really don't know, hence the seemingly stupid question. Thanks Gordon. -- Cheers, Gene
