On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:32:55AM -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) enlightened us: > The most common way I have seen ov updating crontab is the > crontab command. > > 1. login or su to the appropriate user > 2. crontab -l > /tmp/crontab.txt > 3. edit /tmp/crontab.txt to your liking > 4. crontab /tmp/crontab.txt > > This gets the right files in the right places an alerts cron > of the change. > Or you could just type crontab -e and not copy tmp files around. This method is fine when you're not trying to automate something, so is good information, but less useful to the OP. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos