On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:58:41 -0700 wes <p...@the-wes.com> dijo: >On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> >wrote: > >> >> >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. > > >they are kept in /var/spool/cron. > >But, look first at >> >/etc/; there should be a set of cron directories there; e.g., >> >cron.d/, cron.daily/, cron.hourly/, cron.monthly/, cron.weekly/. >> >> >these are different from crontab. each has its own strengths and >weaknesses.
There is a /var/spool/crontabs folder in Xubuntu's /, but it is empty. And I read about anacron and a couple more, but what I did before worked well. I have it on tomorrow's to-do list to reboot to Xubuntu, go to crontab -e, copy my jobs to a text file, and get back to Sparky. In theory that's all I need to do. It's taken about a week, but I'm almost done. And I'm liking Sparky more than Xubuntu. And there's nothing snapping at me or flat packages to deal with.
