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Re: [cobalt-users] Contab -E ? and Mailman?



On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, David Hay wrote:

> Greetings to all
>
> I have a mail script that can be called using cron. I managed to insert
> it into cron using crontab-e It works fine.
>
> However when I try and insert another call to the same script on a
> different site ( same script different location ) The procedure I used
> to insert in crontab -e fails.
>
> This is what I did first I called crontab -e as su The vi editor shows
> up then pressed the letter i for insert and placed in my string, then
> pressed escape and used :wq and received new cron job received or
> similar.
>
> When I follow this procedure again I receive vi is recording after
> inserting and that's it I cant do anything else it does not freeze but
> tells me it is recording instead of as I expected inserting and
> accepting the new string.
>
> On a different note how easy /hard is it to install mailman on a raq4r?
>

crontab -l
see if it is listed

/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart

then
crontab -l
should be there now....

Gerald
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