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From: greg@tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Crontab
Summary: Crontab wipes existing crontab
Keywords: crontab bugs ncr
Message-ID: <139@tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz>
Date: 21 Jul 89 02:56:22 GMT
References: <138@tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz>
Reply-To: greg@tcnz.co.nz
Organization: Thomas Cook NZ Head Office, Auckland, NZ
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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).

This means I must manually reload the thing myself

Greg
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