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(Answer) (Category) polarhome.com FAQ : (Category) access questions : (Category) shell :
crontab problems?
Shell accounts do have enabled crontab.
Crontab may hava a strange behaviour that you may submit a new one but you can not edit it any more with crontab -e.
The problem lays in VIM editor secure temporary file handling.
There are two solutions:
1. use another editor for crontab.
$ export EDITOR=pico
$ crontab -e

2. delete curent crontab and submit a new one
$ crontab -l > my_crontab.txt
make changes in my_crontab.txt file
$ crontan -r
$ crontab my_crontab.txt
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