Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 10:19:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CRON: it loves me Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91.960522094948.10288A-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <199605220636.IAA13184@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Wed, 22 May 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote: > You're not supposed to have a cron file for "root" except for > /etc/crontab... Or you have to be careful of what you put in either > one. They do not have the same format. > > That's not to say you can't do it. It is just that it is not the preferred > way. Since I've been running BSD for less than a year (with around 10 years SYSV experience) I'm hardly an expert on the "right" or preferred way. But... If I only had the man pages to go on (and that's pretty much the case) I'd have to conclude that /etc/crontab is an artifact and probably deprecated. /etc/crontab gets a passing mention in cron(8) where it simply says that it has a different format. Every other man page refers to crontab(1) and the /var/cron/tabs scheme. If there really is a reason for root to use /etc/crontab vs. crontab(1) I think it should be documented somewhere. And I'd like to hear what the reasons are even if they never get formally documented. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems Dana Point, California
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