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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:41:12 +1000
From:      Phil Homewood <philh@mincom.com>
To:        James Halstead <halstead@dreamscape.com>
Cc:        "questions @FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: crond
Message-ID:  <20000121134111.R32425@mincom.com>
In-Reply-To: <019e01bf63b6$ad93b740$64c8d9d1@jameshal>; from James Halstead on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 09:24:41PM -0500
References:  <016101bf63b0$4a2cb0e0$64c8d9d1@jameshal> <20000121114426.P32425@mincom.com> <019e01bf63b6$ad93b740$64c8d9d1@jameshal>

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James Halstead wrote:
> Phil homewood wrote:
> 
> > You ran "crontab /etc/crontab". Don't do that.
> 
> I don't think I have ever executed that command, but it is possible. Anyway,
> how can I fix the problem?

crontab -r

/etc/crontab is a system-wide thing; it differs in format from the
per-user crontabs. Either edit /etc/crontab and leave it be, or use
crontab to edit a per-user crontab file. Don't combine the two.
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