diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 15a8ce76b0..a9d21c6c95 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
     <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
 
-    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.145 2001/02/24 12:18:04 nik Exp $</pubdate>
+    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.146 2001/02/26 21:51:48 nik Exp $</pubdate>
 
     <abstract>
       <para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X.
@@ -5246,13 +5246,22 @@ device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr</programlisting>
             which &man.crontab.1; updates (the &man.crontab.5; manual
             page explains the differences in more detail).</para>
 
-          <para>If this is what you did, you should delete the
-            <filename>/var/cron/tabs/root</filename>, since it will
-            simply be a copy of <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>,
-            in the wrong format.  Next time, when you edit
-            <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>, you should not do
-            anything to inform &man.cron.8; of the changes, since it
-            will notice them automatically.</para>
+          <para>If this is what you did, the extra crontab is simply a
+            copy of <filename>/etc/crontab</filename> in the wrong
+            format it.  Delete it with the command:</para>
+	    
+	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>crontab -r</userinput></screen>
+            
+	  <para>Next time, when you edit
+	    <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>, you should not do
+	    anything to inform &man.cron.8; of the changes, since it
+	    will notice them automatically.</para>
+
+	  <para>If you want something to be run once per day, week, or
+	    month, it's probably better to add shell scripts
+	    <filename>/usr/local/etc/periodic</filename>, and let the
+	    &man.periodic.8; command run from the system cron schedule
+	    it with the other periodic system tasks.</para>
 
           <para>The actual reason for the error is that the system
             crontab has an extra field, specifying which user to run the
diff --git a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 15a8ce76b0..a9d21c6c95 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
     <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
 
-    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.145 2001/02/24 12:18:04 nik Exp $</pubdate>
+    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.146 2001/02/26 21:51:48 nik Exp $</pubdate>
 
     <abstract>
       <para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X.
@@ -5246,13 +5246,22 @@ device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr</programlisting>
             which &man.crontab.1; updates (the &man.crontab.5; manual
             page explains the differences in more detail).</para>
 
-          <para>If this is what you did, you should delete the
-            <filename>/var/cron/tabs/root</filename>, since it will
-            simply be a copy of <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>,
-            in the wrong format.  Next time, when you edit
-            <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>, you should not do
-            anything to inform &man.cron.8; of the changes, since it
-            will notice them automatically.</para>
+          <para>If this is what you did, the extra crontab is simply a
+            copy of <filename>/etc/crontab</filename> in the wrong
+            format it.  Delete it with the command:</para>
+	    
+	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>crontab -r</userinput></screen>
+            
+	  <para>Next time, when you edit
+	    <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>, you should not do
+	    anything to inform &man.cron.8; of the changes, since it
+	    will notice them automatically.</para>
+
+	  <para>If you want something to be run once per day, week, or
+	    month, it's probably better to add shell scripts
+	    <filename>/usr/local/etc/periodic</filename>, and let the
+	    &man.periodic.8; command run from the system cron schedule
+	    it with the other periodic system tasks.</para>
 
           <para>The actual reason for the error is that the system
             crontab has an extra field, specifying which user to run the