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Re: [LUG] Crontab sanity check

 

On 10/08/11 12:33, Martijn Grooten wrote:
> 
> At least, that's what /etc/crontab on my Ubuntu suggests; I always use
> crontab -e myself.

And you want to use "crontab -e" because /etc/crontab might be updated
by new versions of the cron packages and if it is the upgrade will stop
and ask you to make a decision and system administrators hate having to
make decisions because there it raises the possibility of getting it wrong.


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