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| On 2009-12-03 07:01:02, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
| 
| Joerg Schilling wrote:
| > 
| > I have never seen /etc/crontab. What should this be for?
| 
| I remember having it on really old systems, before crontab was
| split into per-user files and the crontab command provided for
| each user to edit theirs and to notify cron when it was time to
| re-read them.   I haven't seen in 15+ years though.   (Apollo
| Domain/OS is the one I'm remembering, but I could be remembering
| poorly.)

Vixie cron reads it. It's very common on Linux.

(Which is presumably where the OP is coming from.)
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bda
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