> It appears to me that NetBSD's crontab(5) uses the pseudo-filename > "-" for installing a crontab from stdin, while SUS defines taht > crontab reads from stdin if no filename is specified.
crontab(5)? I'll assume that should be crontab(1). Those are not inconsistent, unless SUS specifies other behaviour for the case of a bare -, or NetBSD's version doesn't read from stdin when no (pseudo-)filename is given. Personally, I think reading from stdin in the case of no filename is a rather nasty UI design botch, as that makes it significantly easier to accidentally destroy your crontab. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B