On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, John D. Hardin wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Logan Shaw wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
By default, they're probably already setup. /etc/crontab usually points
at them.
What's an /etc/crontab? I've never seen one of those before.
That's the global default crontab file (at least in some versions of
cron). It does things like run the hourly, daily, weekly and monthly
cron jobs via run-parts or a similar tool (at least in some versions
of cron).
Wow, it actually exists?! I wrote what I did because I
thought you had made a typo and meant to say "root's crontab"
but wrote "/etc/crontab" instead even though /etc/crontab
doesn't literally exist.
Having said that, I'm confused about why /etc/crontab would
exist in any version of cron. It seems more complicated to
put root's crontab in a special place that's different than
the pattern for every other user (where crontabs are stored
somewhere under /var/spool/cron), and I don't see the benefit
you'd get in exchange for that extra complication.
(OK, end of thinly-veiled Linux rant...)
- Logan
