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dwain wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2007 20:55, John Andersen wrote:
>   
> > On Tuesday 10 April 2007, G.T.Smith wrote:
> >     
> > > > There is no reason to make it executable.
> > > > Any text file will do.  It can be located anywhere.
> > > >  
> > > >         
> > > Surely some mistake here, the root cron file in the example would have
> > > to executed to so needs execute rights :-) ...  To be honest reply is a
> > > bit ambiguous..., but the original suggestion is wildly off the mark ...
> > >       
> > No the root cron file is not executable.
> > Nor it is executed.
> > It is merely read by cron and the tasks listed therein are performed
> > per schedule.
> >
> > man cron
> > man crontab
> >     
>
> I just signed in as root and did crontab -e and there was the code.  it says 
> it's in the tmp/crontab directory.  Is this correct?
>
> BTW, thanks for the information.
>
> Dwain
>   
It's there until you actually save the changes.  And it's the semi-colon 
key, not the colon as I said (my mistake).  Hit shift, then the colon, 
semi-colon, and it will save the file.
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