crontab disappeared

afuella · #1 (**permalink**) 03-23-2007

when i am doing the crontab editing i am using the setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi
but their was an error i tried to put set EDITOR /usr/bin/vi and it wnet through and i started editing using the command crontab -e but somehow it is slow and displayed something like e300 and i tried to stop because it was slow,by control C and what happened was the next time i display the crontab using crontab -l everything disappeared.

I tried to check the log files for cron then i can see the the cron is running where the cronjobs is activate to the last date i am checking the cron logs.

how can i fix this?

Yogesh Sawant · #2 (**permalink**) 03-23-2007

if you have backup somewhere, restore from it

afuella · #3 (**permalink**) 03-23-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yogesh Sawant

if you have backup somewhere, restore from it

i tried to restore from my backup but when try to display it it doesnt show at all.

Perderabo · #4 (**permalink**) 03-23-2007

Use the crontab command to reinstall the crontab file. Or stop and restart the cron program.

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