It is far too easy to type 'crontab -r' (which is geographically very close to 'crontab -e') and accidentally delete one's crontab.  Please either remove this "feature" or alias cron = 'cron -i' in /etc/profile to ask if the user is sure before going ahead with deletion.  How often do you actually inted to completely remove a cron file?  How hard is it to zero out the file inside the editor if that's what you really want?

Hi Javier,

Any updates on this one?
I've been hit by it too. :(

Olaf

My workaround (after the first dataloss :) was placing a
    @daily crontab -l >| ~/.crontab.jan
line in my crontab.
HTH,
    Jan

P.S.: is it intentional that the /usr/share/bug/cron/script only
reports that I have EDITOR set, but not to which value? (see below)
--- usr/bin/editor:
/usr/bin/vim.athena

--- /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 30344 Jun  5 10:52 /usr/bin/crontab

--- /var/spool/cron
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov  6  2008 /var/spool/cron

--- /var/spool/cron/crontabs
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Aug 10 17:54 /var/spool/cron/crontabs