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Re: [cobalt-users] Crontab Editing Question



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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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