crontab doesn't work: Not a regular file

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crontab doesn't work: Not a regular file #29

Open mezitax opened 4 years ago

mezitax commented 4 years ago

when executing:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-59:~$ sudo crontab /home/ubuntu/crontab -u ubuntu
/home/ubuntu/crontab: Not a regular file.

how should I add the crontab?

ubuntu version: 18.04 LTS

lkts commented 4 years ago

Did you copy file from Windows? If so you need to fix line endings in file to Unix style. Visual Studio Code can do that for example.