[ale] RH 6.0 crontab problems

[hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu (hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu)]

> Can anyone explain to me why when I run "crontab -e" as root, I get an
> empty file? As crontab file does exist in /etc and it fires of cron.daily,
> etc.. as part of the standard RH6.0 install. It works on other *NIX OS'es
> just fine ;)

/etc/crontab is not exactly the root's crontab, but rather it is the system
crontab.  The root's crontab (like everyone else's) is in /var/spool/cron/

--Michael