Crontab
Mike Wescott
wescott at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
Mon Jul 24 22:29:42 AEST 1989
In article <2271 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> In article <139 at tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz> greg at 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.
>
> Unless somebody at NCR decided to modify "crontab" but didn't get it
> right,
Nope. No modifications. Except expanding the usage message to include the
-l option.
> it's the manual that's incorrect;
[...]
> I suspect, though, that it's purely a documentation screwup.
Nope. The man page for crontab, while not a verbatim copy of the V.2.1
man page uses the same language:
Crontab copies the specified file, or standard input if no
file is specified, into a directory that holds all user
crontab files.
This isn't the clearest and most complete description of crontab's behavior
but I don't see the "append" implication either.
--
-Mike Wescott
mike.wescott at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
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