Comments in /usr/lib/crontab

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In article <306 at baskin.UUCP>, wmk at baskin.UUCP (Bill Kules) writes:
> We are running UTX/32 (a 4.2bsd port) on a Gould computer.  Since our
> crontab file is getting fairly large, I'd like to put comments in it.
> Comments are not mentioned in our documentation (cron(8)), so I'm
> asking the net... Is this possible, and if so what is the format?
> 

I don't know how portable this is, but it seems to work on my system
which is a 4.2bsd/v7 hybrid.

Precede comment line with a # character.. There may be a less restricted
syntax ( i.e. ![0-9\*] }

for example, an excerpt from my crontab file:


0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * ( /usr/lib/atrun )
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run the calendar utility for those of us who have cal
# 20 1 * * * /bin/calendar -
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Weekly uucp cleanup
30 5 * * 6 ( /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.wk ) >>/usr/adm/uudemon.wk.clg 2>&1
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Daily uucp cleanup
10 4 * * * ( /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.day ) >>/usr/adm/uudemon.day.clg 2>&1
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------


...etc


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