never mind on crontab... apparently 500MB for the /var partition is not enough.
Now, any ideas about how to reset the timezone for my date & time? Thanks for the leads, Randy. --- Original Message --- From: "Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [expert] crontab -e AND date in 9.0 > >try=20 > >strace crontab -e > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:46 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [expert] crontab -e AND date in 9.0 > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 299 Sep 30 07:55 /etc/crontab > >I changed it to=20 > >-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 299 Sep 30 07:55 /etc/crontab* > >just for kicks and it had no effect. It's now back to the >original settings. > > >--- Original Message --- >From: "Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [expert] crontab -e AND date in 9.0 > >>What are the permissions on /etc/crontab? >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:20 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [expert] crontab -e AND date in 9.0 >> >> >>I have 9.0 "final" loaded and have 2 problems currently... >> >>when I run crontab -e to add an entry (as root or a normal user) >>it creates a temporary file such as /tmp/crontab.24908. When I >>finish my entries, do :wq and try to verify my entries with >>crontab -l or by rerunning crontab -e, the temporary file was >>never written to a permanent file. I have not had this problem >>previously; is this a known problem and is there a known fix or >>am I missing something I need to do? >> >>Also, in trying to set my time I ran date with the -u option >>(print or set Coordinated Universal Time). I need to reset my >>system to use CDT rather than UTC. How do I reset my timezone, >>please? >> >>Thanks, >>Joe >> >> >> > > > >
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