Crontab
Tom.Moore@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM
tmoore at ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM
Mon Jul 24 22:26:03 AEST 1989
greg at tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz writes:
>In NCR Tower Unix, release 20100, if I create a crontab format file as
>root then do
>crontab filename
>it wipes what is currently in the crontab for root and replaces it with
>the new entries. It does not append it, as the manual implies. We didn't
>have cron.allow or cron.deny set up, so root was the only one able
>to use cron (all the users are naive users).
To quote the TOWER User Reference Manual crontab(1) entry:
"Crontab copies the specified file, or standard input if no
file is specified, into a directory that holds all user
crontab files."
I don't believe copy implies append.
If it is any consolation, you are not the first person to make this
mistake. :-)
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