Bug 84195
| Summary: | root crontab does not work | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | Zoechmann Reinhard <reinhard.zoechmann> |
| Component: | crontabs | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-02-13 17:06:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Don't set EDITOR or VISUAL to emacs if it's not installed. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0; QXW0340j) Description of problem: I want to use the root crontab. I set up the system. At this time root uses bash. Then I changed the shell to ksh. # crontab -e no crontab for root - using an empty one /bin/sh: emacs: command not found crontab: "emacs" exited with status 127 On our system there is Oracle 9iAS Version 9.0.2 installed. But the owner is an other user. Crontab works with other users. The hotline is not able to reproduce this problem at thair system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.login as root 2.crontab -e 3. Additional info: