RE: best practice for crontabs

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Yau
Hi, I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs in debian /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d/... /etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly /var/spool/crontabs/... but I'm none the wiser about why there are so many ways to do such a simple thing. Can anyone

best practice for crontabs

2004-02-25 Thread Andy Fish
Hi, I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs in debian /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d/... /etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly /var/spool/crontabs/... but I'm none the wiser about why there are so many ways to do such a simple thing. Can anyone enlighten me as

Re: best practice for crontabs

2004-02-25 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Andy Fish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs in debian /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d/... /etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly /var/spool/crontabs/... but I'm none the wiser about why there are so many ways to

Re: best practice for crontabs

2004-02-25 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:02:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Andy Fish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs in debian /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d/... /etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly /var/spool/crontabs/...