On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I told you you had an extra carriage return in there. I also said to
> hex edit the file and replace the second to last '0A' (LF) with a '20'
> (space). I didn't say nuke it. And that was for the slocate.cron only.
> If you open the file in the hex editor the offending character is just
> to the left of the last brace (right hand curly bracket).
>
> When you're done you should have only one /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron
> file and the slocate.cron~ one should not exist.
>
Hmm....Ok. I'll give that a shot. I just remembered that
there's a hex editor built into KDE.... I'll export your
instructions to a file and try it tonight! :-)
Thanks again for helping a dufus like me! :-)
John
