topic Re: Deleting crontab in Operating System - HP-UX

Deleting crontab

Filosofo — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:01:10 GMT

Hi all,
While I was editing the crontab, /var it has gone in full. When I have tried to see the content of the crontab was empty. Is possible that the filling of /var has made that mine crontab has been cancelled.
I hope that you can help me

thanks

Filo

Re: Deleting crontab

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:02:48 GMT

You lost crontab becuase /var was full.

its gone and can be restored from backup.

First, you must clear space on the /var filesystem and once there is space, you can build a new crontab file or restore it from backup.

SEP

Re: Deleting crontab

Filosofo — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:10:58 GMT

OK thanks Steven,
but as it never happens this?

Thanks

By Filo

Re: Deleting crontab

Fred Ruffet — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:16:15 GMT

Once space is freed, you will need to resore a file named as the user in /var/spool/cron/crontabs.

Regards,

Fred

Re: Deleting crontab

RAC_1 — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 10:26:56 GMT

Now you understand what has happened to that file. For editing crontabs, I always follow following procedure.

crontab -l "user_name" > /tmp/some_file

vi /tmp/some_file

crontab /tmp/some_file "username"

Anil