Attachment 13344 Details for Bug 25456 – file.diff

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>--- book.sgml	Sat Feb 24 23:21:21 2001
>+++ /tmp/book.sgml	Wed Feb 28 09:25:30 2001
>@@ -5246,13 +5246,22 @@
>             which &man.crontab.1; updates (the &man.crontab.5; manual
>             page explains the differences in more detail).</para>
> 
>-          <para>If this is what you did, you should delete the
>-            <filename>/var/cron/tabs/root</filename>, since it will
>-            simply be a copy of <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>,
>-            in the wrong format.  Next time, when you edit
>-            <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>, you should not do
>-            anything to inform &man.cron.8; of the changes, since it
>-            will notice them automatically.</para>
>+          <para>If this is what you did, the extra crontab is simply a
>+            copy of <filename>/etc/crontab</filename> in the wrong
>+            format it. Delete it with the command:</para>
>+	    
>+	    <screen>&prompt.root; <userintput>crontab <option>-r</option></userinput></screen>
>+            
>+	  <para>Next time, when you edit
>+	    <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>, you should not do
>+	    anything to inform &man.cron.8; of the changes, since it
>+	    will notice them automatically.</para>
>+
>+	  <para>If you want something to be run once per day, week, or
>+	    month, it's probably better to add shell scripts
>+	    <filename>/usr/local/etc/periodic</filename>, and let the
>+	    &man.periodic.8; command run from the system cron schedule
>+	    it with the other periodic system tasks.</para>
> 
>           <para>The actual reason for the error is that the system
>             crontab has an extra field, specifying which user to run the

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