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Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 18:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
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To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Tue, 21 May 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> Look into /var/cron/crontabs. If  you have a file  named root, "rm" it. The
> root crontab is only in /etc/crontab.

My root file in /var/cron/tabs works fine, and so does /etc/crontabs.

I'm used to running crontab -e and it doesn't seem to hurt anything, even
if you are root.  On 2.1R

Dan
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