[arm-allstar] Is there a way to nerf “crontab -r”?

[Doug Crompton]

Glenn,

  I doubt it since it is a system command and we are not going to make
changes just for our code. The -ri option would ask but that is kind of
stupid because if you accidentally hit -r it would still just remove it.
Either be careful or I would suggest making a script to call it. I have
never accidentally done this but now that it is mentioned I probably will!
I would say make a script to call it - cronedit and add this to the script-

#!/bin/bash
crontab -e

save it and do chmod 750 cronedit

Then just run cronedit to edit cron. It needs to be in the search path or
have full path specified. Put it in /usr/local/sbin


*73 Doug*

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 2:50 AM "Glenn Morgon via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Was modifying my crontab and accidentally used the -r option instead of -e
> since the two keys are located next to each other. Unfortunately the damage
> was done and while I was able to pull from backups, I lost some
> intermediate changes.
>
> As such, is there a way to nerf the -r option so that it at least asks for
> confirmation before deleting the crontab file?
>
> Thanks,
> Glenn
> N8HC
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