Re: crontab ?
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:56:02PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote:
> This is a strange way to want to set a crontab...
Actually, considering that it's how crontab expects to work if no flags are
given, I suspect that `crontab <filename>` is the most historically standard/
normal way to use it.
> "man crontab"
> seems to say it'll work, but the file might need to be executable or
> something.
No, it doesn't need to be anything special.
> Why do you want to do this anyway? Isn't it simpler to edit the
> crontab directly with "crontab -e"?
Don't know if it's why the OP was doing it this way but potato's elvis
returns an exit status of 1 even if it exits cleanly. crontab sees this,
assumes an error, and doesn't update anything. So, if elvis is your default
editor, `crontab -e` doesn't work. (This has been fixed in woody.)
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