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Date:      Wed, 22 May 1996 07:17:38 +0100
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, "Andrew N. Edmond" <edmond@UWYO.EDU>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CRON: it loves me
Message-ID:  <9384.832745858@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 May 1996 18:08:40 PDT." <Pine.SV4.3.91.960521180508.7873B-100000@cedb>

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Dan Busarow wrote in message ID
<Pine.SV4.3.91.960521180508.7873B-100000@cedb>:
> 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

Yes, but the original posters problem was that he used crontab -e and
then loaded in /etc/crontab to it ... /etc/crontab is a different
format, and should not go into /var/cron/tabs

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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