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Operating Systems Linux Debian Problems with Crontab not executing scripts after edit Post 302416943 by ro0t3d on Wednesday 28th of April 2010 06:00:50 AM
Old 04-28-2010
Problems with Crontab not executing scripts after edit

Hi all

I installed Debian and i have a few scripts that outputs what is happening.

The wierd part...after fresh install all works ok but after i open or edit Crontab it stops executing the scripts...and scripts runs manually so its not a problem with scripts...what happens is that i usually edit files on ftp with flashfxp and maybe this is the cause..or they are pointing to another owner...i spent hours trying to understand why but i end up in a dead end so if anyone with any idea would be great cause im far from a linux expert.

is there a way to reinstall fresh crontab when this happens?

the only safe way to edit crontab is with vim or nano?

thanks a lot for your help "im reinstaling Debian for 5x" Smilie

cya
 

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bcrontab(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bcrontab(1)

NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e } DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory. OPTIONS
-u user Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user. -l List the cronab crontab to standard output. -r Remove the user's crontab. -e Edit the current crontab. ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used. BCRON_SOCKET The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool. LOGNAME USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used. FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab. SEE ALSO
bcron-spool(8), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> bcrontab(1)
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