RE: Cronjob

> -e Edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the
>VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. The specified editor must
>edit the file in place; any editor that unlinks the file and
>recreates it cannot be used. After you exit from the editor, the
>modified crontab will be installed automatically.

>He wants to delete the job. If he kills the process the job will run again
>next time so editing the crontab file is th eonly way.

>On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:

>> crontab -e is bad!
>> Jared

There is more than one way to edit a crontab. crontab -e is not a good one. Write the crontab to a file(crontab -l > cronfile), edit it, and reload it (crontab cronfile).

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Steve McClure

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