[Voyage-linux] crontab not saving

[Darshaka Pathirana]

On 18.05.2009 10:54, Darryl Ross wrote:
> On 18/05/2009 4:22 PM, Darshaka Pathirana wrote:
>> On 16.05.2009 17:29, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
>>> I’m having trouble saving changes to my crontab, I ‘remountrw’ and then
>>> use ‘crontab -e’ to make the changes, however it seems that after the
>>> system is reboot the changes are no longer available and when doing
>>> ‘crontab -l’ I simply get get ‘no crontab install for root’ or something
>>> to that effect.
>>
>> '/root' is by default symlinked to '/rw/root' and therefor
>> everything saved in there is just in the ramdisk and will be lost
>> after reboot.
> 
> You are correct in that the crontabs are saved in the ramdisk, but the
> path is actually /var/spool/cron
> 
> When you have made a change to the crontab, just rsync /var/spool/cron
> to /ro/var/spool/cron.

Ups. Thanks for your clarification.

Greetings,
 - Darsha