From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 10:47:38 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 10:47:37 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from damoe.wireless-isp.net (damoe.wireless-isp.net [208.61.227.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A374C37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (keen@localhost) by damoe.wireless-isp.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBEIlOo18763; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:47:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:47:23 -0500 (EST) From: David Raistrick To: Peter Brezny Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ok guru's, this one ought to be easy, crontab -e In-Reply-To: <002f01c06616$d1bb4a80$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Peter Brezny wrote: > it's a blank file and when i edit and exit, and type crontab -e again, > there's the same file i just edited, however, it doesn't appear to be > combined with the real /etc/crontab > > Could someone please tell me why the instructions don't just say to edit > /etc/crontab by hand, and what does this crontab -e command do? Sure. crontab -e edits the crontab for the user, not the system cron in /etc/crontab. see /var/crontabs/username for the one you are working with. And there is some big tado about not editing it by hand, I presume it has something to do with a hashed database somewhere. later...david -- David Raistrick Digital Wireless Communications davidr@dwcinet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message