Well, the point is you should only edit your OWN crontabs. Root can edit
anyone's. For a user named deirdre, root could:

crontab -u deirdre -e

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:

> > First, you never edit /etc/crontab directly. Use crontab -e (for
> > edit) instead.
> Really?  I did not know I could edit crontab with that command, only user
> crontabs.

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