how to use crontab and cron.daily

[Todd Zullinger]

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nigel henry wrote:
> Hi. I'm interested in setting up a cronjob. I'm using FC2, and using
> the working example, crontab -l returned "no crontab for
> <user-name>" , so using the suggested syntax I added myself to
> /etc/cron.allow, but trying crontab -l still get the same result.

Use crontab -e to edit your crontab.  This will open your editor
(specified by the $VISUAL or $EDITOR variables) where you can
create/edit as you like.  When you exit, your crontab will be
installed.  User crontabs are stored in /var/spoool/cron/$USER, IIRC.

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