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Hi everyone... |
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I've been having serious problems with cron. It seems that the default |
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/etc/crontab is not getting used by crontab. After an initial install, I |
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ran crontab -e and it was blank, but /etc/crontab had many things in it. |
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After putting things into the crontab with crontab -e it works, but I have |
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it setup to run something once every 15 minutes and it runs things once |
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every 5 minutes instead (according to the docs and #linpeople on |
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openprojects.net, the contents are correct). |
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Also, the standard ways of changing the editor invoked with crontab -e do |
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not work. I tried "export EDITOR=joe" and "export VISUAL=joe" but crontab |
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-e still failed to run joe instead of vi. I then resorted to moving |
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/usr/bin/vi to /usr/bin/vi-old and ln -s /usr/bin/joe /usr/bin/vi and then |
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it STILL tries to invoke vi, but it fails saying "Couldn't open |
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'/usr/lib/virc'". |
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Alot of people suggested I switch to vixiecron instead of dcron, because |
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of thier previous experiences with dcron. I was told vixie |
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wouldn't have these problems. |
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I was wondering if there was a way we could switch the default |
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implementation of cron to vixie so that these problems could be fixed? |
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Has anyone else experienced the same problems? |
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Thanks for your time. |
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Bryce Porter |
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BP Web Design |
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bporter@××××××××××.net |
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x86@g.o |
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