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From: rick@comspec.UUCP (Rick McCalla)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: crontab update
Keywords: crontab,question,update table,update crontab file
Message-ID: <113@comspec.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 90 21:30:07 GMT
References: <855@edstip.EDS.COM>
Reply-To: rick@comspec.UUCP (Rick McCalla)
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Organization: Comspec - Toronto, Ontario        Opinions expressed are not                                                    necessarily those of Comspec
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In article <855@edstip.EDS.COM> ohrnb@edstip.EDS.COM (Erik Ohrnberger) writes:
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>I have a question about the safest way to update the cron program's
>crontab file.

Eric : I keep a file called root.crn or rick.crn etc which is a copy of the
crontab file I want to use for any user.  When I want to modify the crontab
file I actually modify the file called root.crn or rick.crn etc.  I then su to
that user and run 'crontab root.crn' which will replace the crontab for that
user with the new one.  No need to reboot your system.


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