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On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:32, Kevin Kinsey wrote:

> And furthermore, you edited /etc/crontab or something similar
> instead of using crontab(1) to edit /var/cron/tabs/root.  Nitpicky,
> to be sure, but the cause of many a heartache:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRO
>RS


The FAQ entry is about the mistake of using the crontab utility to install the 
system crontab (or a copy) as root's user crontab ( This is not helped by the 
fact that /etc/crontab refers to itself as "root's crontab" ). 

There is no such problem with simply editing  /etc/crontab - it's the more 
straightforward approach.