Recover Crontab

[Cyril G]

Is there a way to recover a crontab entries? In solaris. I accidentaly
pressed return after I typed just crontab and then pressed control-D
to quit. it Emptied the file.

Cyril

[Rev. Don Kool]

Cyril G wrote:

Apparently you didn't read the "crontab" man page very well.

NOTES
If you inadvertently enter the crontab command with no
argument(s), do not attempt to get out with Control-d. This
removes all entries in your crontab file. Instead, exit with
Control-c.

It's easily fixed however. Restore the file
"/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root" from your backups. Then send a HUP to
"cron" or do a "crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root".

Hope this helps,
Don

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[Chris Thompson]

In article <34d6209a.0206...@posting.google.com>,

Recover /var/spool/cron/crontabs/[USER] from a backup (not to the same
location: check/edit it first, and then run "crontab" on it to reinstate).

If you have anything non-trivial in a crontab, it is good practice to
keep the master copy elsewhere, using your favourite change-control
system, and put changes into effect by using "crontab [filename]"
on it, rather than fiddling around with "crontab -e". (That could be
part of a make rule, or an rdist "special", etc., in yet more elaborate
situations.)

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 [at] cam.ac.uk