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

[Glenn Morgon]

Thank you Doug.  My next thought was a script but as always the hardest
part is what to name it.

Glenn

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:02 AM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> 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*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
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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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