[Wolves] SuSE and more odd stuff...

Stuart Langridge sil at kryogenix.org
Tue Feb 8 00:04:25 GMT 2005


Peter Oliver wrote:
>> Under Debian /etc/crontab is the approach, and, as said, I can only 
>> really speak to Debian.
> 
> Why would goofing with /etc/crontab be a good idea, unless you wanted to 
> shift the /etc/cron.* jobs to a different time of day?

Again, /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} are, in Debian, for the use of 
packages, not for the sysadmin. Yes, the sysadmin could put stuff in 
root's crontab, but I think /etc/crontab's more discoverable.

Aq.




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