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- From: hunt@shy.umd.edu (Brian Hunt)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: why is /usr/lib/crontab a link to /etc/crontab?
- Message-ID: <hunt.724968988@shy.umd.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:16:28 GMT
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- avolio@TIS.COM (Frederick M Avolio) writes:
- >The *proper* place is in /etc/crontab. The link in /usr/lib is for
- >backwards compatibility and also since probaboly the ULTRIX cron code
- >was never changed to point to the proper place...
-
- Not only that, but if you edit /etc/crontab the Ultrix cron (well, my
- version at least, 4.2A) does not even notice the change, I guess
- because the modify time on the link /usr/lib/crontab does not change.
- This gave me fits until I moved the file to /usr/lib (and made
- /etc/crontab a link, just in case).
-
- Brian Hunt
- hunt@ipst.umd.edu
-