07-09-2003
To troubleshoot you should read the man page for crontab.
Quote:
(crontab -e as root), it says
$ crontab -e
0
Note: You would not have a $ as a prompt if you were root. Make sure you have done a su - .
Then check your EDITOR:
The EDITOR value can be seen by
$ echo "$EDITOR"
If it's not set, you will get an error "Undefined variable". If you then do the crontab -e command, it will default to ed which is mentioned in the man page for crontab.
Fix these two problems and you will be on your way.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bcrontab
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)