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On a centos 5.3  vps I got recently I found that crontab was not installed.

On typing crontab -e to edit root’s crontab I got the error:

crontab: command not found

It seemed odd that this was not installed. Anyway, it took me a few moments to work out what package I needed to install.

yum install vixie-cron

there you go.

I needed to setup a new secondary name server as one of mine went down  and I didn’t know if it was every going to come back.

So In installed bind9 on a ubuntu server as per the instructions on this page

One problem I ran into though was a permission denied error when the new secondary server tried to transfer zones from the primary server.

This was fixed by changing the owner of /var/bind from root to bind

The next time the transfer happened it worked just fine.