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Crontab deleted?
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Mar 15, 202623751 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
Instead of typing "crontab -e" I accidentally typed "crontab" and was stuck in the middle of a process so I aborted the process. Now when I go to crontab -e it's entirely blank. This isn't good at all. If I can't get it back I will need to rewrite it. Is there any way to: get my crontab jobs back? …
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with no arguments reads a crontab file from standard input. For example, you might use: Once you've clobbered your crontab (i.e., shows nothing), there's no good way to get it back. On my system (Ubuntu 11.04), personal crontabs are stored in -- but…
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