On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:41:47AM +1200, C Falconer wrote:
> > /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.

That's system maintenance.. to me. but as has been mentioned, probably not
the best thing to do.

Mike.
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Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                      ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184

        The first 90% of the code in a project takes 90% of the time.
         The next 10% of the code will take another 90% of the time.
                                                 -- J. S. Labuschagne

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