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From: Michael Smith <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with vixie-cron
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:20:39
Message-Id: 440DBE6E.9000105@smith-li.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problem with vixie-cron by "Thiago Lüttig"
1 oh right -- no need to run 'crontab /etc/crontab' with vixie-cron
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3 just do crontab -e to edit and you're done.
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6 Thiago Lüttig wrote:
7 > Hi, i´m trying to automate a proccess with vixie-cron, so I edit the
8 > /etc/crontab file, and after run crontab /etc/crontab, i look into the
9 > log (/var/log/crond/current) and the following message apears: [cron]
10 > (*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/crontab)
11 > and my task was not executed. What´s wrong ?
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16 > Atenciosamente,
17 > Thiago Lüttig
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