Deleting crontab

[Filosofo]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Filosofo]

OK thanks Steven,
but as it never happens this?

Thanks

By Filo

[Fred Ruffet]

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

Regards,

Fred

[RAC_1]

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