I want to know how I can create a crontab when I add a (new) user to a box, similar to what happens whith the contents of '/etc/skel/'. This will be on Redhatish servers, and for regular shell users.

Can I create a crontab file with vi without the crontab command? Currently working on a microcontroller linux distribution, and there's no crontab command, but cron exists... if only I could get a ...