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RE: [cobalt-users] Crontab Editing Question
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Crontab Editing Question
- From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Feb 20 12:15:36 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> This may sound like a silly question, but what is the
> difference between editing your crontab (/etc/crontab) via
> your fav text editor -vs- doing it by issuing "crontab -e"..?
>
> I'm just curious as to if using the "-e" option is
> better/more proper, or if it really matters..?
>
If it works, it works. The other method for a user crontab is uploading
a .txt file and issuing as that user: crontab file.txt.
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C2003 Dan Kriwitsky
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