Crontab 错误“没有 root 的 crontab”

Question

当我crontab -e在终端写命令时，

我收到此错误消息：

no crontab for root - using an empty one 888

我不知道“888”是什么意思？

crontab /etc/crontab 的配置文件：

# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
58 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
52 0 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
46 0 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
9 5 28 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
#

请帮我。

谢谢。

Answer 1

您的crontab编辑器已切换到ed. 要退出ed，请依次按Q和Enter。这将退出ed编辑器。

如果您想将crontab编辑器改回nano使用：

sudo select-editor

这也可能有帮助：

EDITOR=nano crontab -e

Answer 2

这是默认文件中的字符数。Ubuntu 创建了一个“空”的 crontab 文件，其中包含许多说明如何使用它的注释。

crontab -e 
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h  dom mon dow   command
"/tmp/crontab.vILdXR/crontab" 22L, 888C