On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have
> a file /etc/crontab that contains this:
> % cat /etc/crontab
> SHELL=/bin/bash
sets the default shell for the cronjobs to bash.
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
sets the default path for cronjobs.
> MAILTO=root
tells cron where to mail it's output.
> HOME=/
used to chroot cron jobs, I believe.
> # run-parts
this is a comment :)
> 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
cron jobs: the first says, on the first minute of every hour, every day,
every month, every day of the week, run all the scripts in
/etc/cron.hourly. The second says, on the second minute of the fourth
hour of every day of every month, on every day of the week, run the
scripts in /etc/cron.daily. And so on, and so forth.
You know, this is detailed (maybe not so clearly) in crontab(3). All,
except for the run-parts bit, which just runs every executable in a
directory. I don't know if it's recursive or not.
> how does this relate to the files in /var/spool/cron that
> are created by crontab(1).
I believe those are personal cron scripts, while these are system cron
scripts.
-Matt Stegman
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