Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like, >> typically in a directory like ~/.cron/. > > Is that... normal? I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep a private > copy of their crontab in their home directory like that.
I don't know if it's normal but sounds like a good practice, to have a backup of your crontab. I've been bitten by this sometime when my old shell provider retired a system and I had no copy of my crontab. My home dir was not affected by that retirement since those were all NFS mounted from a different server. I think they did dig out my crontab from tape when I asked.