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Authored by: escowles on Feb 20, '03 10:45:45AM
You don't need to use tabs in crontab (though it can make the formatting nicer if you have a lot of jobs). You can just use spaces.

The other thing is that there really isn't a reason for root to do this -- you can edit your own crontab with:

crontab -e

It will be run whether you're logged in or not (of course, it'll probably fail if you're not logged in since root will own the console device).

-Esme

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