4 Comments on “Which command with all parameters and arguments, can be used by root to erase the cron job list for the user f”

1. Tom Williams says:

   July 10, 2012 at 1:15 pm

   Should this not be: crontab -u fred -r

   
   
   
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   1. admin says:

      July 10, 2012 at 6:34 pm

      Yes, fixed.
      Thanks.

      
      
      
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   2. Simon says:

      July 11, 2012 at 12:35 pm

      I thought this was crontab -r fred

      The crontab utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
      The following options shall be supported:
      -e
      Edit a copy of the invoking user’s crontab entry, or create an empty entry to edit if the crontab entry does not exist. When editing is complete, the entry shall be installed as the user’s crontab entry.
      -l
      (The letter ell.) List the invoking user’s crontab entry.
      -r
      Remove the invoking user’s crontab entry.

      
      
      
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      1. Simon says:

         July 11, 2012 at 12:39 pm

         I was wrong it is

         crontab -u fred -r

         This because root is doing the removing and not Fred.

         
         
         
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