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>

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