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Old 11-24-2003, 06:42 PM  
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Originally posted by MrPheer
say you name your crantab file "cron"
then you do: crontab cron

it will overwrite whatever you had there before as long as its the same filename
Actually it will overwrite it regardless of what the filename is. The file argument you give the crontab command is just for input sake... Your real user's cron data is stored somewhere else on the system, such as /var/spool/cron under most Linux distributions, or /var/cron/tabs under FreeBSD.
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