+------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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.) -- bda cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
