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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: su uucp in crontabs/root ?
Message-ID: <8369@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 5 May 89 18:46:17 GMT
References: <75@norsat.UUCP> <2008@egvideo.UUCP> <532@bilver.UUCP> <32031@sgi.SGI.COM>
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In article <32031@sgi.SGI.COM> vjs@rhyolite.SGI.COM (Vernon Schryver) writes:

>It would indeed be a welcome change to go back to the old behavior when
>cron would regularly stat(2) the file /usr/lib/crontab.

>What am I misunderstanding?

If you have the "crontab" command you are supposed to:
crontab -l >file
edit file
crontab file
How cron is notified of the change or where the file is stored is
not really important.  If you want to change another user's crontab
entry, just: su user and follow the same procedure.

Les Mikesell