[Wolves] SuSE and more odd stuff...

Stephen Parkes sparkes at westmids.biz
Tue Feb 8 01:30:28 GMT 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 01:17 +0000, Stuart Langridge wrote:

> 
> Um, I'm a bit confused here. I'd expect ordinary users to use their 
> crontab, as indeed I do. I'm talking about stuff to do with system 
> maintenance and so on here, which pretty much has to live in either 
> /etc/crontab or root's crontab.

As Debian crontab includes a userfield anyone can use it (it also
doesn't need crontab to be run after editing which was unusual when
Debian started doing it but is probably standard now)

I tend to put everything in /etc/crontab since I can find it when it
needs changing.

> Aq.

sparkes
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