Re: Crontab Mystery

From: Bill Carlson (wcarlson_at_vh.org)
Date: 12/17/03

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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:57:25 -0600 (CST)

    On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Matthew Galgoci wrote:

    > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Peter Fleck wrote:

    > > Everything is working fine but I'm wondering how you edit
    > > /etc/crontab as someone added some cron jobs and we need to remove
    > > them. Do I simply edit the file in vi and restart crond?
    >
    > /etc/crontab is the system wide cron file.

    And yes, you can edit /etc/crontab with any editor. crontab is used to
    keep two people or sessions from editing the same crontab at the same time
    as well as simple sanity checks.

    Bill Carlson 

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