Re: [foxboro] Editing Crontab

On Jan 19, 2008 7:10 AM, foxpat <foxpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I thought it was crontab -e to edit and crontab -l to list.

it is by as Kevin mentioned NEVER edit the crontab directly w/
'crontab -e'. if you screw it up, it's gone.

much better to list it and redirect that to a file. edit the resulting
file, then load it as Kevin outlines above.

'crontab -e' is one of those things that is a very bad idea, a unix
sin so to speak (and mortal, not venial at that)
 
 
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