I’m currently running SLES9 and having a problem while trying to save my
crontab. As root, I do the usual “crontab -e” make my changes and then
try to save with either ctrl ZZ or wq! I then get the message “crontab:
Installing new Crontab” and then it just hangs and never returns to the
prompt.
Any ideas are appreciated.
regards
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The last line in the crontab file must be a blank line. Is it a blank
line?
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Yes, same thing happens. I also noticed that there are a lot of
/USR/SBIN/CRON processes when I ps -ef.
Any other ideas?
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ps09973;1934069 Wrote:
> Yes, same thing happens. I also noticed that there are a lot of
> /USR/SBIN/CRON processes when I ps -ef.
>
> Any other ideas?
No, this is beyond me.
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ps09973 schrieb:
> I’m currently running SLES9 and having a problem while trying to save my
> crontab. As root, I do the usual “crontab -e” make my changes and then
> try to save with either ctrl ZZ or wq! I then get the message “crontab:
> Installing new Crontab” and then it just hangs and never returns to the
> prompt.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated.
Try looking at the hanging session from a different window/console/ssh
session with ps and lsof to see which operation is stalling.
HTH
T.
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Tilman Schmidt
Phoenix Software GmbH
Bonn, Germany