crontab: no changes made to crontab
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Nov 15 03:57:26 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:46, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
>Can someone tell me if they have run into this problem before? I am
> trying to create a cron job, to no avail. Anytime I go to create the
> job (as root) I type crontab -e, put the commands in however when it is
> time to save I save what I believe should be successful. When I type
> the command crontab -l, it says no crontab for root.
>
>Also after saving the crontab (:wq), I get the following message,
> "crontab: no changes made to crontab" without the quotes. I have
> restarted the cron daemon to no avail.
This walks and quacks about like the duck I was pursueing earlier. I too
had no /etc/crontab file after a bare metal FC6 install. I finally
touched the file, re-ran kcron, and then got a valid file written by
kcron, or so the trailer in the file claims.
Actually, I could restart the cron daemon but service always said the
shutdown stage failed, and the startup was ok. But I could ps -ea|grep
cron and come back empty too.
I wonder what install combo manages to trigger this?
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Cheers, Gene
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