Re: Cron

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From: collver1
Subject: Re: Cron
Date: 15:30 on 02 Oct 2003

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:05:38AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > Reason I hate cron is because it has a very awful non friendly 
> > specification system.
> 
> Reason I hate it is because if you type "crontab" by itself you're
> hosed.

$ crontab
crontab: usage error: file name must be specified for replace
usage:  crontab [-u user] file
        crontab [-u user] [ -e | -l | -r ]
                (default operation is replace, per 1003.2)
        -e      (edit user's crontab)
        -l      (list user's crontab)
        -r      (delete user's crontab)

Must be a different cron.

Cheers,

Ben

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Re: Cron peter (Peter da Silva) 15:05 on 02 Oct 2003
- collver1 15:30 on 02 Oct 2003
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 16:24 on 02 Oct 2003
- Gavin Estey 15:42 on 02 Oct 2003

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