Crontab in Fedora Core 5

putteand · 09-29-2006, 11:33 AM

Hi guys.

I just installed a fresh Fedora Core 5 on my system, system booted and everything went smoothly.

Until i tried to add a job to crontab.
Where the .... is crontab?

Only thing i can find is the conf in /etc
Not even as a service.

Running CLI.

Tried removing "crontabs" via yum and installing it again. Didn't help.

Any ideas?

Cheers

marozsas · 09-29-2006, 12:48 PM

crontab is command.
It uses the vi editor by default.
If you are not a fan of vi, and you are in the graphical mode, you can use gedit.

Code:

$ export VISUAL=gedit
$ crontab -e

After created a cron job, you can list the cron tab with

Code:

$ crontab -l

putteand · 09-29-2006, 12:52 PM

Yeah, it should be.

But the command/program "crontab" is not present. :\

putteand · 10-01-2006, 04:11 PM

Doesn't anybody have an idea - Getting desperate here :\

I btw love vim

putteand · 10-05-2006, 05:53 AM

bump bump :\

billymayday · 10-05-2006, 08:25 AM

I run fc5 and have the main crontab file in /etc, and individual user's crons in /var/spool.

Does /usr/bin/crontab exist?

putteand · 10-05-2006, 09:00 AM

/usr/bin/crontab does not exist ...

billymayday · 10-05-2006, 09:14 AM

Does it exist anywhere (try locate or find)? If not, I'd assume it isn't actually installed

What does

#yum list installed crontabs

return?

putteand · 10-07-2006, 07:17 AM

the only file on the system is the conf in /etc .. And the .hourly .daily and so on..

Yum returns;

Installed Packages
crontabs.noarch 1.10-7.1 installed

....

Tried removing and installing (via yum) didn't help

billymayday · 10-07-2006, 05:30 PM

What dot you get if you type
# locate crontab ?

Here's my output

/etc/anacrontab
/etc/crontab
/usr/bin/crontab
/usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in
/usr/share/man/man1/crontab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1p/crontab.1p.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/anacrontab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz
/usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/crontab.vim
/var/cache/man/cat1/crontab.1.bz2
/var/cache/man/cat5/crontab.5.bz2

putteand · 10-07-2006, 05:35 PM

/etc/crontab
/etc/crontab.rpmsave ##backup, from when I reinstalled
/usr/share/vim/vim64/syntax/crontab.vim
......

Obviously a lot missing

But how the heck, im I gonne get it properly installed and working? Without reformatting and reinstalling everything?

putteand · 10-07-2006, 05:36 PM

What about sending me the "crontab" binary?

Think that'll work? :P

billymayday · 10-07-2006, 08:09 PM

There's more to it than that. Try uninstalling with yum, then

yum list installed | grep crontab

to make sure it's gone and reinstall

putteand · 10-08-2006, 06:35 AM

I've allready tried that.
Just tried it again, though.

Same old story, no errors, but no crontab binary.

caspervn · 10-08-2006, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by putteand

I've allready tried that.
Just tried it again, though.

Same old story, no errors, but no crontab binary.

How about command ?

Code:

rpm --query crontabs.noarch 1.10-7.1