by Visvanath Ratnaweera.
The -e option is the prescribed way of editing the crontab.
In the early days by directly editing files in /etc/cron.d/, /etc/cron.hourly/, etc. you could do the same. I think todays highly automated Linux flavours don't like it.
In the early days by directly editing files in /etc/cron.d/, /etc/cron.hourly/, etc. you could do the same. I think todays highly automated Linux flavours don't like it.