Re: crontab: temp file must be edited in place

• Subject: Re: crontab: temp file must be edited in place
• From: Kent Behrends <email@hidden>
• Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:37:13 -0800

On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 07:09 PM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:

	I try to add a cronjob for myself with:

		crontab -e

	When I leave the editor, I get the above error message and no
	crontab is installed for me.  What's the deal?

Check the protection on your /tmp directory.

Here is my log:

kent% crontab -e
/tmp/crontab.2UKi9pyjZx: 11 lines, 745 characters.
crontab: installing new crontab
kent%

Notice the location of the crontab file?

---kent-(-
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