Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 14:49:00 UTC 2010


On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:35:16 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> Then why is it still there, leading one to think they can edit it for 
> global cron jobs?

You can edit it for global cron jobs (or you can drop files
in the /etc/cron.d/ directory). In fact I do edit it: I move
everything out of the /etc/anacrontab file and back into
/etc/crontab where it will run at a known time rather than
a random time (or course, I have to change the syntax and
say what time I want it to run).


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