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Old 08-22-2007
namishtiwari namishtiwari is offline Forum Advisor  
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Originally Posted by jithinravi View Post
Nope! sorry that doesnt work

crontab -e jravisha
crontab: usage error: no arguments permitted after this option
usage: crontab [-u user] file
crontab [-u user] [ -e | -l | -r ]
(default operation is replace, per 1003.2)
-e (edit user's crontab)
-l (list user's crontab)
-r (delete user's crontab)
-i (prompt before deleting user's crontab)
Where you are running this command.I am running in solaris and it is working perfectlly fine for me.Here jravisha should be a user added in unix machine otherwise it wont work.did you get what i say.The user name is through which you login to unix prompt.

Thanks
Namish

Last edited by namishtiwari; 08-22-2007 at 07:53 AM..