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Article #1084Re: Upgraded Emacs, can't change crontab
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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:19
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:19
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<3C8B729D.203E84D2@mlynarczyk.net> divulged: >make sure EDITOR is not pointing to a symbolic link. While symbolic links >should be totally transparent to a process that opens a file I have run >into problems with apache where replacing a symbolic link with the actual >target fixed my problems (and yes it should not work this way). apache has special code to decide if a symlink should be followed. on most systems the exec code does not, it always follows the link. >The other option if this is your own system is to login as root and >change directory to /var/spool/cron. You can always create/edit your >crontab file as root (name it according to your user id); the crontab >command is a convenience so to get around the directory permissions for >/var/spool/cron. don't take this advice. in general the crontab command also sends a signal to the running daemon that it needs to reload a users' table. some daemons may rescan the spool themselves, but that is not universal enough to take to heart, whereas the crontab command will always do the right thing. -- okay, have a sig then
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