On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Iraj Medifar wrote: > Thank you Joel, turns out vi does the trick! But here's what kind of baffles > me. With RedHat 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1, I always switched to gedit to edit my > crontab and never had a problem. In fact a well-known QUE manual on RedHat > 6.2 suggested the use of gedit for those (like me) who didn't feel very > comfortable with vi. In any event, I used vi and it worked and that's what > matters. Thanks a lot again for the helpful hint.
My guess is that gedit isn't able to write to /var/spool/cron -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
