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Can I create a crontab file with vi without the crontab command? Currently working on a microcontroller linux distribution, and there's no crontab command, but cron exists... if only I could get a ...

If you have a crontab entry like this: @reboot /usr/bin/command it will execute when the system starts up, with the ownership and permission of the person owning the crontab! I researched a lot to ...

Problem description =================== A buffer overflow existed in the 'crontab' command; if called by a user with a username longer than 20 characters. If the system administrator has created ...

I'm slowly but surely learning my way around the Terminal with some shell scripts, but I'm having a problem with a shell script when I put it in the root crontab. It works at the command line but ...