On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > ronnie gauthier spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > > Its for cron jobs that dont fit into the periodic folders, say every five > > minutes or bi-weekly. Also you can use regular crontab syntax, the > > periodics should only contain shell scripts. You can add shell scripts to > > the periodics without having to worry about restarting cron. You also have > > a /var/spool/cron where cron stores users jobs done via crontab -e as > > /var/spool/cron/username. Distros handle the various calls with different > > scripts but the above holds true for linux and Unix AFAIK. > > yeah. I just found out that you can put crontab-like entries here, and they > automatically get read in by crond. what's the point of using this instead of > /etc/crontab?
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