Re: [cobalt-users] Crontab Editing Question

[Lillith Lesanges <lillith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 01:01 post, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:
> > 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"..?
>
> 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.

This is the method I try to use.  That way, you have a backup copy.  
From sad experience, it turns out that crontab -r (which removes all 
crontab entries for that user) is a really easy typo for crontab -e.  
All it takes is once.

Lillith K. Lesanges
IT Department, MIS, Inc.