This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"
- From: "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:28:50 -0400
- Subject: crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"
I'm using a cygwin that I refreshed yesterday, on Win2K SP2.
uname -a says: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 COMPUTER 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686
unknown
I installed the cron service following recommendations to include
CYGWIN="tty ntsec". Cygcheck reveals that cron is version 3.0.1-7.
Everything appears fine when I create my crontab file, and jobs do actually
run. But then I'm not allowed to edit the file. I even deleted /var/cron to
ensure correct permissions, and have tried both recreating it with the
postinstall script and letting crontab recreate it. No joy. The console
session below is fairly typical.
sholden@COMPUTER ~
$ crontab -l
/var/cron: No such file or directory
/var/cron: created
tabs: No such file or directory
tabs: created
no crontab for sholden
sholden@COMPUTER ~
$ crontab -e
no crontab for sholden - using an empty one
crontab: installing new crontab
sholden@COMPUTER ~
$ crontab -e
crontab: no changes made to crontab
sholden@COMPUTER ~
$ ls -lRF /var/cron
/var/cron:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 sholden None 0 Oct 10 13:11 tabs/
/var/cron/tabs:
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 sholden None 224 Oct 10 13:11 sholden
>From a cursory reading of the source this look like a failure to rename the
temporary file. What have I done wrong?
regards
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/
Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/
Previous .sig file retired to www.homeforoldsigs.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/