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Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 1 | |
| Subject: | What about "crontab -e"? | |
| Date: | 2002-12-10 16:44:52 | |
| From: | chris_stone | |
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Response to: What about "crontab -e"?
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You are correct in using crontab -e to edit *your* user crontab (those in /var/cron/tabs). However, the crontab command is not for the *system* crontab, (/etc/crontab), which is edited directly.
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What about "crontab -e"?
2002-12-14 23:46:21 dillera [View]
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What about "crontab -e"?
2002-12-20 10:32:21 Chris Stone |
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Actually, that is not correct.
sudo crontab -e will edit the *root* crontab -- the user crontab for the user *root*, which is /private/var/cron/tabs/root.
This is a different file than the *system* crontab, which is /etc/crontab. It is this system crontab which holds the schedule for the regular maintenance jobs, not the root crontab.
try:
$ sudo crontab -e
this will edit the system crontab in one step.
-andy