On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:02:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> 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.
>
Also, if you regularly shut down your system for periods, like a home PC
user would do, then you probably need anacron.
--
....................paul
It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
enough hammer.
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