Date: 05 Jan 1999 11:45:28 +0100 From: Benedikt Stockebrand <bs_13969_50203@adimus.de> To: Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net> Cc: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? Message-ID: <sa7ogoengl3.fsf@adimus.de> In-Reply-To: Yani Brankov's message of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 01:29:06 %2B0200" References: <199901032313.SAA04829@istari.home.net> <368FFD42.F849603C@bulinfo.net>
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Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net> writes:
> /etc/crontab duplicates the role of the user crontabs, but anyway I
> think it's more
> convenient to have all the necessary system crontab entries in one file.
Aside from that it's a Good Thing[TM] to keep all configuration files
in /etc --- putting them in /var will bite you as soon as you have to
recover from a disk crash and find out you've never bothered to dump
/var (including assorted spools and log files). And /var has a way
stronger tendency to get messed up on a system crash than / has.
So long,
Ben
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