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Bug 78911 - Incorrect option for vixie-cron's delete crontab
Summary: Incorrect option for vixie-cron's delete crontab
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-gui...
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Reported: 2005-01-21 00:48 UTC by Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-02-05 09:50 UTC (History)
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Description Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-21 00:48:14 UTC
E-mail sent to www@g.o by Scott Ortell:

"""
In the cron documentation, you state that the command "crontab -d"
deletes the crontab.
This may be correct for dcrom and fcron but the command to delete the
cron entry in vixie cron is "crontab -r"

no biggie. but it may cause confusion to a noob.


Keep up the excellent documentation!!!  (my favorite reason for using gentoo)
"""
Comment 1 Camille Huot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-21 16:51:20 UTC
I guess you refer to the Code Listing 3.13:
# crontab -d
# crontab -l

This Code Listing follows this sentence: "As a step forward, let's remove that crontab using the corresponding remove command from the table above."

And the table above contains the good command for vixie cron that is "crontab -r".
Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-05 09:50:45 UTC
Marking as such.