I'm using busybox crond and crontab on a Puppy PC distribution. The
crond runs with no parameters. I use crontab to create/edit my cron
file. The file itself is indeed in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/user
(where "user" is the owner of the crontab file). I've been using this
for several years and so far it has worked as I expect. I haven't used
the -c parameter to crond or crontab but as I read the help info it
means crond and crontab use that path instead of
/var/spool/cron/crontabs. When you speak of "cron jobs" it reminds me
of the way "at" jobs were stored when I used it under several flavors of
Unix. Are you sure you aren't conflating the two (cron and at)?
As to whether anybody still watches the list - some people have jobs and
other commitments so they may not read it every day. Some are not
necessarily interested in or expert in a given area (cron in this case),
some may wait to see if any other subscriber has a better response
first, some may have other reasons for not responding right away.
Doug Clapp
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