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Date:      Mon, 04 Jan 1999 01:00:33 +0200
From:      Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why is root's crontab different?
Message-ID:  <368FF691.B2B7B3D8@bulinfo.net>
References:  <199901032233.RAA01244@istari.home.net>

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"Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote:
> 
> My question is why is root's crontab entry treated differently (i.e.
> a file in /etc) as opposed to just having a crontab (in /var/cron/tabs)?
> 

/var/cron/tabs/root contains the root user crontab settings and
/var/crontab contains system crontab settings.
it's for convenience I think.

iani

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