Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Stephane Chazelas Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: Re: crontab -r is way to powerful of a command to not have a confirm message Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 16:41:52 +0100 Lines: 66 Approved: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <6b9501d4-75e2-443f-a75c-d0432957ba4f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1444076801 16733 208.118.235.17 (5 Oct 2015 20:26:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.121.17.252 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6b9501d4-75e2-443f-a75c-d0432957ba4f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:26:38 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU utilities List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.utils.bug:2190 2015-10-04 21:19:54 -0700, paulrabinowitz@gmail.com: > crontab -r is way to powerful of a command to not have a confirm message, > > particularly because the "r" key is right next to the "e" key, and people crontab -e all day. > > How can I contribute to the gnu crontab project? [...] There are several cron/crontab implementations, none of which maintained by the GNU project AFAIK. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Modern_versions If on a Debian GNU system or derivative, you can check which implementation your contrab comes from with: $ dpkg -S "$(command -v crontab)" cron: /usr/bin/crontab $ apt-cache policy cron cron: Installed: 3.0pl1-128 Candidate: 3.0pl1-128 Version table: *** 3.0pl1-128 0 50 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1 0 500 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages 3.0pl1-124 0 500 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ oldstable/main amd64 Packages Package: cron Binary: cron Version: 3.0pl1-128 Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña Uploaders: Christian Kastner Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), libpam0g-dev, libselinux1-dev [linux-any], libaudit-dev [linux-any], dh-systemd (>= 1.4) Architecture: any Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Format: 1.0 Files: 5e8a6aa14d3b8c5519c9ba61664599b3 1911 cron_3.0pl1-128.dsc 4c64aece846f8483daf440f8e3dd210f 59245 cron_3.0pl1.orig.tar.gz 7b29818023b184e6dd47464bd1cfa729 98918 cron_3.0pl1-128.diff.gz Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cron/pkg-cron.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-cron/pkg-cron.git Checksums-Sha1: 065ca50b6c8a10cedc42be0cf82c6a471cb21e67 1911 cron_3.0pl1-128.dsc f8d00de4c7c0eae97bedb4a3ec10ea21d43ece84 59245 cron_3.0pl1.orig.tar.gz 6b5c00d9dc79d05525f9f1bd76dbdbe4c540dc14 98918 cron_3.0pl1-128.diff.gz Checksums-Sha256: eb54373a81a19a2afa44457ac4a38d0e09436e8f078c68c7c6db2b6e2c6c0edf 1911 cron_3.0pl1-128.dsc d931e0688005dfa85cfdb60e19bf0a3848ebfa3ee3415bf2a6ea3ea9e5bcfd21 59245 cron_3.0pl1.orig.tar.gz 0380e331d1f20187df088dea7b2e1ace5948192a4f729d8c28651ab01796a8a2 98918 cron_3.0pl1-128.diff.gz Homepage: http://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/ Package-List: cron deb admin important arch=any Directory: pool/main/c/cron Priority: source Section: admin In my case, it's the one from the Internet Software Consortium. -- Stephane