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Old 08-22-2007
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Originally Posted by jithinravi View Post
am getting the following error while trying to create a new crontab file:

(jravisha) jravisha- crontab -e
no crontab for jravisha - using an empty one
crontab: installing new crontab
"/tmp/crontab.XXXXH3SJgR":1: premature EOF
errors in crontab file, can't install.
Do you want to retry the same edit?

any idea why?
You can do something like this---

crontab -e "username"
if you are a user put your name as a user something like

crontab -e jravisha

Thanks
Namish