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diff --git a/crontab.scm b/crontab.scm
index 2c5152d..266311a 100644
--- a/crontab.scm
+++ b/crontab.scm
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
;; Apart from the collecting of options and the handling of --help and --version
-;; (which are done in the mcron.scm file), this file provides all the
+;; (which are done in the main.scm file), this file provides all the
;; functionality of the crontab personality. It is designed to be loaded and run
;; once, and then the calling program can exit and the crontab program will have
;; completed its function.
@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@
;; Procedure to communicate with running cron daemon that a user has modified
-;; his crontab. The user name is placed in /var/cron/update, and the process
-;; whose PID is held in /var/run/cron.pid is sent a SIGHUP.
+;; his crontab. The user name is written to the /var/cron/socket UNIX socket.
(define (hit-server user-name)
(catch #t (lambda ()
@@ -74,19 +73,6 @@
-;; Iff the real user is root, he can use the -u option to access files of
-;; another user.
-
-(define crontab-user (option-ref options 'user crontab-real-user))
-
-
-
-;; So now we know which crontab file we will be manipulating.
-
-(define crontab-file (string-append "/var/cron/tabs/" crontab-user))
-
-
-
;; Check that no more than one of the mutually exclusive options are being used.
(if (> (+ (if (option-ref options 'edit #f) 1 0)
@@ -108,6 +94,19 @@
+;; Iff the --user option is given, the crontab-user may be different from the
+;; real user.
+
+(define crontab-user (option-ref options 'user crontab-real-user))
+
+
+
+;; So now we know which crontab file we will be manipulating.
+
+(define crontab-file (string-append "/var/cron/tabs/" crontab-user))
+
+
+
;; There are four possible sub-personalities to the crontab personality: list,
;; remove, edit and replace (when the user uses no options but supplies file
;; names on the command line).