From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 05:37:46 EDT
I'd advise you to either restore it to another name, or move it elsewhere
afterwards. Then do "crontab -f file_name". (I think that's correct:
better check the flag.)
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shipley, Rob [mailto:rshipley@STATE.MT.US]
> Sent: 24 June 2003 23:38
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Problem restoring root crontab from a mksysb
>
>
> On one of your servers, the crontab is empty for the root
> user. Not really
> sure how this happened. I have attempted to restore it from a
> mksysb to
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root. It states everything is OK,
> but when I check
> the crontab, it is still a empty file. Any suggestions? Am I
> doing this
> correctly?
> restorevgfiles -r -f'/dev/rmt0' ./var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
>
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