Trouble creating crontab

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Jul 16 17:51:00 GMT 2009


Paul Mead wrote:
> OK, now that I appear to have sorted my permissions out in general, I
> still have a problem creating crontab.
> 
> I run crontab -e and it fires up emacs (my editor of choice) but can't
> create the crontab file becuase the temp version is unreadable.
> 
> I also tried to open it using another editor by was denied access.
> 
> Any thoughts anyone?

Cygwin Emacs or something else?  What does 'ls -l' on the crontab file
show?  It might be the right time to review the problem reporting guidelines
and submit a full report:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


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