Cron useage question

[James Wilkinson]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Humm, so it does!  Thank you Alexander.  Can anyone explain why the 
> man 1 crontab page has not been deleted?  Its so worthless it 
> certainly should be nuked, 100%, totally.  1993 copyright indeed.  
> This is 2004 in case nobody has told Paul Vixie.

Can you explain why you think it's not needed? Crontab the command is
by far the easiest way of editing personal crontabs. (Besides, it
appears on a number of other Unices: I haven't checked, but there are
quite possibly Posix compatibility issues).

James.

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