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From:	Paul Mead <paul DOT d DOT mead AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Trouble creating crontab
Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:00:16 +0100
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"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

> 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
No, NT Emacs. running ls -l throws up some very strange stuff:

??????????? ? ?        ?            ? crontab.37ESnC4Lrp

odd..


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