[Bug 1451286] Re: crontab -r deletes cron entries without asking for confirmation

[Christian Decker]

Hallo Anonymous,

there are a crontab for the system and a crontab for each user. You can make your entries to /etc/crontab and have to be root to edit and remove.
To save your "user" crontab I think you have to back it up.

Greets

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Title:
  crontab -r deletes cron entries without asking for confirmation

Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  type: crontab -r

  Expected use case : should ask user if they really want to delete this
  file, of which there are no backups on the system by default, and may
  take hours to restore by hand, if it's even possible.

  what happens: user's cron entry is deleted with no warning.

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