On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:46:18PM -0600, 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. I haven't seen this particular problem, but I do have a tip. Rather than editing the root user's personal crontab, it's often more manageable to put system cron entries in /etc/cron.d (note the slightly different format of the files there -- an extra field for the user to run as). Or, if it's a once-a-day thing, drop a script in /etc/cron.daily. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
