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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