On 07/30/2010 12:11 AM, keith smith wrote:
Hi, I have been setting up a cron job and found out there are two different crons. 1) the user cron located at /var/spool/cron/ on my Fedora Box and 2) the system crontab located at /etc/crontab . When I do the crontab -e (if I am recalling correctly) I am editing the user crontab. To edit the system crontab do I just use VI or some other editor? I would have thought if I were root and issued crontab -e I would have been editing the system crontab, however this was not my experience. Thanks in advance for your insight.
If it's a Red Hat-ish box, use /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly and /etc/cron.monthly. Create a script, make it executable, and copy it into one of those directories.
You should never need to edit /etc/crontab. For individuals (including root), crontab -e or crontab -r will do what you want.
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