recover from crontab -r

Corné Beerse cbeerse at lycos.nl
Mon Jul 5 09:35:05 UTC 2004


Max Gonzalez Jr. wrote:

> I accidentally typed crontab -r instead of -e on my linux box. I don't
> have a backup of the crontab . Any idea how to recover it?

Not by any automatic way. You should rebuild it from the ground up.

If you did a `crontab  -e` before, you might be lucky if your editor saved a 
backup somewhere. Most likely this is not find-able...


CBee






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