Of all the stupid *NIX crap
Apparently, crontab -r deletes your crontab. ‘r’ just happens to be beside ‘e’. So if you are going to edit the crontab, and you hit -r, you are screwed…/me grumbles and heads off to find a backup.
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Apparently, crontab -r deletes your crontab. ‘r’ just happens to be beside ‘e’. So if you are going to edit the crontab, and you hit -r, you are screwed…/me grumbles and heads off to find a backup.
That sucks. At least you have a backup. I got bit once and now my user crontab has:
00 00 * * 1 crontab -l > ${HOME}/etc/crontab