This sounds like a permissions problem. Just free associating here: What are the permissions on your crontab (which crontab)?
Mine (Caldera) are: ---s--x--x 1 root root 23388 Feb 17 2000 /usr/bin/crontab On redhat they are: rwsr-x-r-x What are the permissions of /var/spool/cron ? Mine are: drwx------ 2 root root Joel jusOn Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:12:37PM -0800, Iraj Medifar wrote: > Hi everyone: > > I wonder if anyone has experienced that RedHat 8.0 does not allow a user to > edit his crontab. It looks strange that the same edit on another box with > Mandrake 8.2 does work. > > In Mandrake, one opens a terminal and runs: > > export EDITOR=gedit > crontab -e > > Then follows by commands and saves the changes. That's it. > > In RedHat 8.0, the same action results in this message: "no changes made to > crontab". You get the same message even when you log in as root and try to > edit the user's crontab. > > Has anyone else had the same experience with RedHat 8? Is there a solution? Am > I forgetting something in RedHat? > > TIA > > > -- > Iraj Medifar > Home - Linux Desk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
