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Re: [cobalt-users] Crontab Editing Question
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Crontab Editing Question
- From: Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Feb 21 15:24:01 2003
- Organization: BRTNet.org
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
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> > 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.
Plus doing "crontab file.txt" doesn't add file.txt to the existing
crontab, it overwrites it.
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Bruce Timberlake
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