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    I recommend you not fat finger a cron command, and type "crontab -r" accidentally. It just silently deletes your crontab, without giving you the chance to back out. Anyone notice that the r and e keys are next to each other?

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    #2 Paul Dwerryhouse

    I know someone whose contract was terminated for doing just that. Admittedly, he'd done plenty of other silly things, like an errant rm -rf on a very key directory on an Oracle server.

    But it was the crontab -r that broke the camel's back...
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