On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:43, Mike Beattie wrote: > Why not use your user crontab? > > /etc/crontab should really only be used for system maintenance tasks...
Why is that? I have up to 12 lines in one machine's /etc/crontab... they're doing a variety of things from log processing to doing a daily backup to more log processing, which *could* be done as non-root I suppose. But I think having it all in one file is easier. Comments?
