I think I've accidentally deleted the system crontab file, which I thought
was in /etc but apparently was in /var/cron/tabs/ .  Is there any way to
regenerate a
new one - is it even necessary?

Also, I confused as to how cron is supposed to work in NetBSD (I'm running
NetBSD/i386-1.5.2). From 'man 5 crontab' it appears that only the 'system
crontab', which I guess is /etc/crontab, and/or the root crontab
(/var/cron/tabs/root ??) , can execute commands, yet any user listed in
/var/cron/allow can have a crontab file. Why would you want a user crontab
other than send yourself mail?
-beaker


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