On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 12:32:55PM -0500, Jon Schewe wrote: > I've noticed lately that when I make changes to my crontab I have to > edit a copy of the file and install it without using an editor. If I do > crontab -e, make my changes, exit my editor (vi), crontab says there's > no changes and doesn't install the crontab. Instead I end up saving the > file to my home directory and then doing 'crontab filename' and then it > gets installed. Anyone have any clues? Possibly unrelated, but Debian had a bug with those symptoms a while back. The problem was that vi was exiting with a status of 1 (don't ask why...), causing crobtab to believe that there was an error in the editor and that the file was likely to be incorrect. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss