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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Crontab Mistake!!! Post 38504 by cstovall on Thursday 17th of July 2003 11:51:29 AM
Old 07-17-2003
Thanks for your suggestions. I have corrected the problem
by recreating a root crontab file and placing it in the /usr/spool/crontabs directory.

Now when I type "crontab -l" I see the new crontab file I created; however, when I try to overwrite my exisiting crontab file with the command "crontab somefile."

I still get the following error:

crontab: error on previous line; unexpected character found in line

Also, when I try editting the file with the crontab -e command I can't save the file without the creating multiple text lines after pressing the escape key. I am using the vi editor.
 

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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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