Re: Trouble creating crontab

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Paul Mead wrote:
> OK, now that I appear to have sorted my permissions out in general, I
> still have a problem creating crontab.
>
> I run crontab -e and it fires up emacs (my editor of choice) but can't
> create the crontab file becuase the temp version is unreadable.
>
> I also tried to open it using another editor by was denied access.
>
> Any thoughts anyone?

Cygwin Emacs or something else?  What does 'ls -l' on the crontab file
show?  It might be the right time to review the problem reporting guidelines
and submit a full report:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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