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Operating Systems Solaris Problem with cron Post 302402607 by incredible on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 07:20:31 AM
Old 03-10-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by naw_deepak
The editor is already set to VI. Thats why, when issuing

#crontab -e

with root user, it is coming with VI. The problem is with issuing same command with other users whoever is not having home directory. The same user when directory gets assigned, able to edit and run cron. Now the problem is over when there is home diretory. But I wanted to know what is the impact if there is no home directory.

Thanks,
Deepakk
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