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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:13:34 -0600
"Darryl Hoar" <darryl@osborne-ind.com> granted us these pearls of wisdom:

> Greetings,
> I am running 4.7 and want to use cron to run a command.
> when I look in /var/cron/tabs, there is not a file for root.
> If I do a crontab -e its blank.
> 
> I thought there was a template already, with example
> commented out.  Do I have to create this file from
> scratch ?
> 
> thanks,
> -D


from scratch,  all users start with blank crontabs.

enjoy

LK