Re: newaliases error in OSR6

Tony Lawrence typed (on Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:57:11PM -0500):
| Brian K. White wrote:
| >----- Original Message -----
| >From: "Bill Vermillion" <bv@xxxxxxx>
| >Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
| >To: <distro@xxxxxxx>
| >Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 3:05 PM
| >Subject: Re: newaliases error in OSR6
| >
| >
| >
| >>In article <1138643286.750919.298990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
| >>B...@xxxxxxxxx <brent.bolin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >>
| >>
| >>>Is Unix one of those operating systems where the syntax has to be exact
| >>>or can it kinda be?
| >>
| >>It just has so many commands that even a typo can do something
| >>quite unexpected.
| >>
| >>Let your finger slip when trying to type 'vi' and get 'ci'
| >>and you'll be in RCS - Revision Contorl System. When that happened
| >>to me I finally got out of it and thought I'd lost the important
| >>file I was working on.
| >>
| >>Then I went into vi again to edit the file and it was gone.
| >>
| >>Panic set in and I performed an ls -latr and right there at the
| >>bottom of the list was the file name with a ,v appended.
| >>
| >>Unix forces you to improve your typing.
| >
| >
| >crotab -e
| >
| >It's a wonderful thing.
| >Used it a lot and espoused it's wonderfulness to any who got within
| >earshot.
| >
| >Then one day I discovered the hard way that the r key is right next to the
| >e key and got introduced to the wonderfulness of crontab -r.
| >
| >Now I still use crontab -e because it is still handy, but now I _always_
| >know where I can quickly recover a copy of crontab from yesterday!
|
|
| Just another reason why I always insist that people learn:
|
| crontab -l > /tmp/mycrontab
| vi /tmp/mycrontab
| crontab /tmp/mycrontab

I much prefer to have a permanent copy of each user's crontab, so instead
of a volatile file in a tmp directory, I do:

crontab -l > ~/.crontab

--
JP
==> http://www.frappr.com/cusm <==
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