From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_06_12, DMARC_MISSING,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from node-02.advancenet.net ([206.221.229.22] ident=root) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14zbC4-0004E2-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2001 03:32:40 -0600 Received: from two-arrows-23a.net66.com (two-arrows-23a.net66.com [12.34.172.123]) by node-02.advancenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA25907 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 04:30:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryce Porter X-Sender: bporter@x86.dyn.cheapnet.net To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [gentoo-dev] cron Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue May 15 03:33:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 04:32:24 -0500 (CDT) X-Archives-Salt: 72575549-266d-449e-9235-2c317bcd5102 X-Archives-Hash: 349f658b026440fc558b0cc22bd9458f Hi everyone... I've been having serious problems with cron. It seems that the default /etc/crontab is not getting used by crontab. After an initial install, I ran crontab -e and it was blank, but /etc/crontab had many things in it. After putting things into the crontab with crontab -e it works, but I have it setup to run something once every 15 minutes and it runs things once every 5 minutes instead (according to the docs and #linpeople on openprojects.net, the contents are correct). Also, the standard ways of changing the editor invoked with crontab -e do not work. I tried "export EDITOR=joe" and "export VISUAL=joe" but crontab -e still failed to run joe instead of vi. I then resorted to moving /usr/bin/vi to /usr/bin/vi-old and ln -s /usr/bin/joe /usr/bin/vi and then it STILL tries to invoke vi, but it fails saying "Couldn't open '/usr/lib/virc'". Alot of people suggested I switch to vixiecron instead of dcron, because of thier previous experiences with dcron. I was told vixie wouldn't have these problems. I was wondering if there was a way we could switch the default implementation of cron to vixie so that these problems could be fixed? Has anyone else experienced the same problems? Thanks for your time. Bryce Porter BP Web Design bporter@advancenet.net x86@gentoo.org