On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like, > typically in a directory like ~/.cron/.
Is that... normal? I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep a private copy of their crontab in their home directory like that. Most people just use "crontab -e" to edit the system's copy of their personal crontab... > They then have to be installed > with crontab, which copies them into /var/spool/cron/crontabs/. ... which lives there.