[GLLUG] Re: crontabs and geeks
Felicia Berryman
felicia at lon-capa.org
Wed Jun 11 13:32:04 EDT 2003
Hello Todd and everyone,
> I was wondering if directly editing a crontab without using "crontab" is
> strictly prohibited.
Actually it is. I used to use crontab -e for editing and then I had to
switch to the technique that bfdamkoehler at worldnet.att.net described.
From the geek history I learned the other day when I had this problem,
crontab -e posed a security risk but no one was actively writing the
code of crontab anymore so the -e option was just disallowed.
Speaking of geek, I recently took the innergeek test and I'm only
23.86588% Geek - even with the bonus 1% that females get. I've passed
the test around to many of my friends and the highest I know so far is
in the sixties. The highest female I know of is 25%.
You may be wondering how I learned the history of crontab. From my
above 60% geek friend of course!
http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html
Felicia
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Felicia Berryman
LON-CAPA Coordinator
Michigan State University
Email: felicia at lon-capa.org
Phone: (517)432-9866
http://www.lon-capa.org
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