13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
5:34 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:32:55AM -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) enlightened us:
The most common way I have seen ov updating crontab is the crontab command.
- login or su to the appropriate user
- crontab -l > /tmp/crontab.txt
- edit /tmp/crontab.txt to your liking
- crontab /tmp/crontab.txt
This gets the right files in the right places an alerts cron of the change.
Or you could just type crontab -e and not copy tmp files around.
This method is fine when you're not trying to automate something, so is good information, but less useful to the OP.
Matt
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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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