---
name: "bcrontab"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bcron"
version: "0.11-23"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bcrontab"
---

# bcrontab(1)

Manage users crontab files

## 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)](/bcron-spool/8.md), [crontab(5)](/crontab/5.md)

## AUTHOR

Bruce Guenter \<bruce@untroubled.org\>