What happened to cron?

My employer recently updated our Macs to Tiger and now cron seems to be exhibiting some strange behavior. Trying to use the -u flag on the command appears to lock the program up (or at least it just sits there doing nothing.)
I typically use Cronnix to edit my cron tasks but that doesn't appear to work anymore after the update. I can still get in there and make changes via crontab, but I'd prefer a quick and easy UI. I'm wondering what changed that's causing the weird behavior and if it's something that can be remedied. Anyone know?

Well, it's not actually hung. it's waiting for you to put
type type crontab information in. To exit, just tap 'Ctrl+D',
then check the contents of that users crontab in /var/cron/tabs/<user name>
from looking at the source code for crontab, it checks the values of environment variables, VISUAL and then EDITOR. Which are set to point to the editor of choice, vi, ed, ex....
after setting them though I've not noticed a differnce, at least not yet.
Andy

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