How to fix crontab: can’t open your crontab file
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Legacy User 1
8/1/2019, 5:21:36 AM
Hi Experts,
In UNIX, I tried to open a crontab file with -l option but getting below error.
>crontab -l
crontab: can’t open your crontab file.
please help.. I need the fix immediately since it holding my automation work.
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Legacy User 1
8/1/2019, 5:22:00 AM
It looks like that the crontab file is empty. Add the job to the crontab file and try again.
How to add job to crontab file:
1. Add the jobs list in any txt file.
2. Use that txt file to add in crontab file as below and try again with your crontab -l command.
$crontab txtfile
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Legacy User 1
8/1/2019, 5:22:18 AM
If Dharini’s fix not work, then just add an extra empty line at the end of the cron file.
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