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Subject: Re: crontab doesn't work
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On Friday 24 March 2006 21:52, Kevin Kinsey wrote:

> 3.  Reasoning:  It appears that you have modified /etc/crontab.
> In BSD-land, you usually want to use the "root" crontab (which
> is under /var/cron/tabs/root) or your personal account
> crontab (/var/cron/tabs/username) to do cron work.

What's wrong with the system crontab? 

One of the entries runs as squid, so it seems sensible to do it the way he has 
done it.