crontab -e command not found

[newbie14]

Dear All,
I have a new centos 5.5 machine. The problem when I type crontab -e it gives me -bash: crontab: command not found. How make my crontab work ? Thank you.

[MikeTbob]

Have you checked to make sure cron is installed?

[newbie14]

Dear Mike,
I have tried this command rpm -qa | grep cron and it show me this
crontabs-1.10-8. So what is my next step please? Thank you.

[linux_oracle]

rpm -ql $(rpm -qa|grep cron)
find the location of crontab command
then
export PATH=directory_crontab:$PATH

crontab command may back

ensure the crond is running ...

[newbie14]

Dear Linux,
Ok I have done and the results is below. Then what command must I run. I am not clear which is the directory?

rpm -ql $(rpm -qa|grep cron)
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.hourly
/etc/cron.monthly
/etc/cron.weekly
/etc/crontab
/usr/bin/run-parts

[Lazydog]

Use locate to find things on your CentOs system.

locate crontab

You should see it is in /usr/bin/

This should be in your path already unless you changed it.
You can check with $PATH

[linux_oracle]

Dear Linux,
Ok I have done and the results is below. Then what command must I run. I am not clear which is the directory?

It seems that you have lost some files of the crontab application.
give you my file list :
[root@oracle ~]# rpm -ql $(rpm -qa|grep cron)
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.hourly
/etc/cron.monthly
/etc/cron.weekly
/etc/crontab
/usr/bin/run-parts
/etc/cron.d
/etc/pam.d/crond
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond
/etc/sysconfig/crond
/usr/bin/crontab
/usr/sbin/crond
/usr/share/man/man1/crontab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cron.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/crond.8.gz
/var/spool/cron
/etc/anacrontab
/etc/cron.daily/0anacron
/etc/cron.monthly/0anacron
/etc/cron.weekly/0anacron
/etc/rc.d/init.d/anacron
/usr/sbin/anacron
/usr/share/doc/anacron-2.3
/usr/share/doc/anacron-2.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/anacron-2.3/README
/usr/share/man/man5/anacrontab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/anacron.8.gz
/var/spool/anacron
[root@oracle ~]# which crontab
/usr/bin/crontab

so i adivice you'd better reinstall it.

If something wrong .connect with me !

[newbie14]

Dear Linux,
I think you are right there is a serious problem even locate command is not working as below is the example. So reinstall is the best then.

[root@localhost /]# locate crontab
-bash: locate: command not found
[root@localhost /]# $PATH
-bash: /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin: No such file or directory
[root@localhost /]#

[MikeTbob]

You might want to verify your download and the CD/DVD that you burn. I've seen corrupted downloads leave a terrible mess.

[newbie14]

Dear Mike,
Ok will do that thank you for the kind advice by all the rest too. I have not got into a mess but is ok reinstalling will be best here. Thank you.