Re: [cobalt-users] Crontab Editing Question

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Barbara" <thebizworkers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This may sound like a silly question, but what is the
> difference between editing your crontab (/etc/crontab)
> via your fav text editor -vs- doing it by issuing
> "crontab -e"..?

crontab is for editing user crons.  /etc/crontab is the system cron.  User
crons on Cobalt servers are stored in /var/spool/cron/<username> and are
either created when using crontab -e -u <user> or by creating/editing a file
for a user, then using crontab -u <user> <filename> to generate the cron
entry in /var/spool/cron/.

So think of the system cron /etc/crontab as a "master" cron, not one
controlled by users.

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Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/