-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ronnie gauthier spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > Its for cron jobs that dont fit into the periodic folders, say every five > minutes or bi-weekly. Also you can use regular crontab syntax, the > periodics should only contain shell scripts. You can add shell scripts to > the periodics without having to worry about restarting cron. You also have > a /var/spool/cron where cron stores users jobs done via crontab -e as > /var/spool/cron/username. Distros handle the various calls with different > scripts but the above holds true for linux and Unix AFAIK.
yeah. I just found out that you can put crontab-like entries here, and they automatically get read in by crond. what's the point of using this instead of /etc/crontab? - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at linux-sxs.org) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org So these 3 guys walk into a bar. You'd think one of them would have ducked... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JYLo2MO5UukaubkRAq1aAKCMot1AaDSBFz7+a0iRid7ENXKLIgCfeLgW ymKH8KzEwl8prQArfBtIdQk= =Dj1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
