There's a couple of different versions of cron available, and you don't specify
which one you use, so I'll just answer with what I'm most familiar with.
Dillon's cron (the cron used in Slackware - crond) says this in it's man page:
"Whenever crond must run a job, it first creates a daemon-owned t
Hello,
I was considering adding an entry in crontab for automated synchronization
of files across two machines that I work on most frequently. One machine
is at work, while the other at home. I used ssh-keygen so that I am
able to be auto-authenicated to the machine at work from home. I want to
