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From:	"Steve Holden" <sholden AT holdenweb DOT com>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	crontab fails to change crontab file: "no changes made to crontab"
Date:	Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:28:50 -0400
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I'm using a cygwin that I refreshed yesterday, on Win2K SP2.

uname -a says: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 COMPUTER 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686
unknown

I installed the cron service following recommendations to include
CYGWIN="tty ntsec". Cygcheck reveals that cron is version 3.0.1-7.

Everything appears fine when I create my crontab file, and jobs do actually
run. But then I'm not allowed to edit the file. I even deleted /var/cron to
ensure correct permissions, and have tried both recreating it with the
postinstall script and letting crontab recreate it. No joy. The console
session below is fairly typical.

sholden AT COMPUTER ~
$ crontab -l
/var/cron: No such file or directory
/var/cron: created
tabs: No such file or directory
tabs: created
no crontab for sholden

sholden AT COMPUTER ~
$ crontab -e
no crontab for sholden - using an empty one
crontab: installing new crontab

sholden AT COMPUTER ~
$ crontab -e
crontab: no changes made to crontab

sholden AT COMPUTER ~
$ ls -lRF /var/cron
/var/cron:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 sholden  None            0 Oct 10 13:11 tabs/

/var/cron/tabs:
total 1
-rw-r--r--    1 sholden  None          224 Oct 10 13:11 sholden

>From a cursory reading of the source this look like a failure to rename the
temporary file. What have I done wrong?

regards
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