The first few lines of the crontab manpage:
NAME
  crontab -- maintain crontab files for individual users (V3)

SYNOPSIS
  crontab [-u user] file
so, you just create a file with the crontab you want, then cycle through all
the users, running that command as root (this is easily scriptable).
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Ankur Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure on how to setup a cron job even before a user logs into
> his / her account. As of now i can make out every user has his/her own
> crontab file using the crontab -e or crontab . But if i want a set of
> cron jobs common to all users, how do i setup a cron job before the
> user logs in? can i setup the jobs in the init.d file.
>
> Thanks
> Ankur
>
> >
>


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          Daniel

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