Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:26:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message to Root Every 5 Minutes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960626161957.799B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.94.960626155210.25242A-100000@alpha.dsu.edu>
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> > So, if you make a change to /etc/crontab, *don't* use crontab(1) to put > /etc/crontab into /var/cron/tabs. If you have done this, you can use > "crontab -u root -r" to remove the installed copy (/var/cron/tabs/root) of > /etc/crontab. Thanks, this worked. I had though I was supposed to use crontab -u root -e to edit /etc/crontab, but instead I created a file in /var/cron/tabs of the wrong format. I've just edited /etc/crontab with vi and put what I want in there and it seems to be okay. My thanks to Scott Blachowicz, Jonathan Bresler, and Mike Murphy also. Annelise
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