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# bcrontab

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## NAME

bcrontab - Manage users crontab files

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory.

## OPTIONS

-u user
  Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user.
-l
  List the cronab crontab to standard output.
-r
  Remove the user's crontab.
-e
  Edit the current crontab.

## ENVIRONMENT

VISUAL
  If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab.
EDITOR
  If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used.
BCRON_SOCKET
  The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool.
LOGNAME
USER
  These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used.

## FILES

bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab.

## SEE ALSO

bcron-spool(8), crontab(5)

## AUTHOR

Bruce Guenter <bruce@untroubled.org>

## Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

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