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> >
> >I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of
> > questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other
> > words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly,
> > monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly,
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Huh? The /etc/crontab file explicitly states that you *don't* need to
> run crontab to edit it. The /etc/crontab file has an extra user field
> that the regular crontab files do not have ...
Absolutely right. I wasn't paying close enough attention.
On 4 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
:"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
:> You can add your script to /etc/cron.daily and change the time these
:> scripts are run from 6:42 am to 1:00 am, or you can add an extra item
:> running your script.
:
:Don't forget to use the crontab comma
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can add your script to /etc/cron.daily and change the time these
> scripts are run from 6:42 am to 1:00 am, or you can add an extra item
> running your script.
Don't forget to use the crontab command if you edit the main file
rather than do
>
>I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of
> questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other
> words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly,
> monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly, but I
> wonde
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