On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Logan Shaw wrote: > 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.
Distinguish between "the custom cron jobs the administrator wants to run" and "the standard system-administrative cron jobs that the OS provides" and you might see a reason. It made sense to me when I first ran across it. I don't like the idea of me fat-fingering a crontab command as root and disabling all of the hourly/daily/weekly/monthly admin jobs. Having that stuff in a separate file makes some sense from a "leave it the fsck alone" point of view. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Apparently the Bush/Rove idea of being a "fiscal conservative" is to spend money like there's no tomorrow, run up huge deficits, and pray the Rapture happens before the bills come due. -- atul666 in Y! SCOX forum -----------------------------------------------------------------------
