The Thursday 2004-03-18 at 09:50 -0700, Donald Henson wrote:
"/etc/crontab cannot be processed with crontab -e. It must be loaded directly into an editor, modified, then saved." But does that mean that's where I should put my cron job? It doesn't say.
That file is the system crontab, mantained by suse, or yast. It may get overwriten with updates. The other is the user crontab, and root has his own.
By the way, I've also looked at "man crontab" and, as usual, I was unable to extract any useful info. Whoever writes the man pages must speak a language I don't understand. As far as I can tell, the man pages are intended for experienced administrators who just need a reminder of something they already know about. It does not appear to be targeted at newbies.
That's right! But there are books. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson