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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to save crontab Post 65625 by shahab03 on Monday 7th of March 2005 03:31:19 PM
Old 03-07-2005
still doesnt work
I tried following
$ crontab -l
#00 20 * * * /u02/app/oracle/admin/PROD/scripts/db_bkup.ksh
#5,20,35,50 6-19 * * * /u02/app/oracle/admin/PROD/scripts/db_move_out_logs.ksh
#00 20 * * * /u02/app/oracle/admin/PROD2/scripts/db_bkup.ksh
#5,20,35,50 6-19 * * * /u02/app/oracle/admin/PROD2/scripts/db_move_out_logs.ksh

$ crontab -e
284
1 * * * * /u12/archive/rm_archive.sh
?
q
The crontab file was not changed.
$

EDITOR=vi doesnt help either. is it possible to locate the crontab file and write directly to it? thanks a lot
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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