[Systems] Where to put cron jobs?

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Fri Oct 16 17:42:41 EDT 2009


El Thu, 15-10-2009 a las 17:56 -0500, David Farning escribió:
> Where should we put cron jobs on production machines?
> 
> I put the mirrorbrain ones in /etc/crontab . Would it be better to put
> them in the mirrorbrain user's crontab?

Create crontab snippets in /etc/cron.d/ .

Because they are a little harder to find, I'd use the user's crontabs
only for the services that can actually be maintained by non-root users.
Mirrorbrain doesn't seem to be one of those.

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