bcrontab1

Usage

Overview

bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory.

Options

-u user

Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user.

-l

List the cronab crontab to standard output.

-r

Remove the user's crontab.

-e

Edit the current crontab.

Environment

VISUAL

If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab.

EDITOR

If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used.

BCRON_SOCKET

The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool.

LOGNAME

USER

These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used.

Files

bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab.