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From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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> 
> So, if you make a change to /etc/crontab, *don't* use crontab(1) to put
> /etc/crontab into /var/cron/tabs.  If you have done this, you can use
> "crontab -u root -r" to remove the installed copy (/var/cron/tabs/root) of
> /etc/crontab.

Thanks, this worked.  I had though I was supposed to use 
crontab -u root -e to edit /etc/crontab, but instead I created a
file in /var/cron/tabs of the wrong format.  I've just edited
/etc/crontab with vi and put what I want in there and it seems
to be okay.

My thanks to Scott Blachowicz, Jonathan Bresler, and Mike Murphy also.

Annelise