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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Error using crontab -e Post 302330976 by Sumedha Sobti on Friday 3rd of July 2009 12:18:36 AM
Old 07-03-2009
Hi,

You may try the following:

EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR
crontab -e

<<Enter crontabs>>

Ctrl q! <<--- Command to end crontab file

I don't think there would be any problem, incase the problem still persists, you may use what wempy has mentioned i.e. /var/spool/cron/crontabs

Regards,
Sumedha
 

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