crontab

Name

crontab -- maintain crontab files for individual users

Synopsis

crontab [ -u user ] file
crontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e }

Description

crontab is as specified in the SUS but with differences as listed below.

Files

The files cron.allow and cron.deny reside in /etc rather than /usr/lib/cron.

LSB Deprecated Differences

The behaviors specified in this section are expected to disappear from a future version of the LSB; applications should only use the non-LSB-deprecated behaviors.

-u user

specifies the name of the user whose crontab is to be used, rather than the user who is running crontab.