Trouble creating crontab
Paul Mead
paul.d.mead@gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 17:57:00 GMT 2009
"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> writes:
> 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
No, NT Emacs. running ls -l throws up some very strange stuff:
??????????? ? ? ? ? crontab.37ESnC4Lrp
odd..
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