Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 01:30:11 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab for root Message-ID: <20010224013010.B10279@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102232353170.2177-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:04:15AM -0500 References: <20010223205013.U87083@dell.dannyland.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102232353170.2177-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>
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Matthew Emmerton (matt@gsicomp.on.ca) wrote: > This means that I have *two* root crontabs - the standard one in > /etc/crontab, and my custom one in /var/cron/tabs/root. > > Is there anything wrong with this type of setup? More importantly, why > would you add 'custom' mods to /etc/crontab when you can use 'crontab -e' > to update the one in /var/cron/tabs/root? (The advantage I've seen is that > when you upgrade, all of your custom mods to root's crontab won't be blown > away if you accidentally install the /usr/src version of /etc/crontab.) Two crontabs? I think you are being far too simplistic. You ought to keep jobs scattered about in root's personal crontab, /etc/crontab, *and* in /etc/periodic/*. Why would you want to make life easy for those who would inherit your job? -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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