Hello
Andy Fish (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs
> in debian
>
> /etc/crontab
> /etc/cron.d/...
> /etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly
> /var/spool/crontabs/...
>
> but I'm none the wiser about why there are so many ways to do such a
> simple thing. Can anyone enlighten me as to which I should use when?
If you want a script to be run daily, weekly or monthly, place in in
/etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, or /etc/cron.monthly. Cron will take
care of the rest for you - you won't have to write a crontab line
telling cron when to run it. If daily, weekly and monthly is not
sufficient for you, create a file in /etc/cron.d with a crontab line
telling cron when to run it. Only use this for system jobs. If you want
to run jobs as a normal user, use
crontab -e
This will edit your user crontab in /var/spool/cron/crontabs.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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