Is the system-wide /etc/crontab file supported by Busyboxes cron daemon or is it completely on a per user basis? For example, I created a cron job for the root user:

* * * * * date >> /tmp/cron.txt

then ran "crontab -u root /etc/cron.d/test". Everything works fine at this point. Now I tried to test the system-wide /etc/crontab file:

* * * * * date >> /tmp/cron.txt2

I let it sit there for 10-15 minutes and no new file appeared in the /tmp directory so I decided to "crontab /etc/crontab" which ended up overwriting the one already set for the root account. Is this normal behavior or am I missing a step somewhere?

Dave
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