Re: [Sheflug] Stupid cron question

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:39:50PM +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> Just out of interest, how does the system figure where to store a
> user's crontab?

Compiled in, I think? Vixie cron over here, btw.

> I looked at /var/spool/cron/[username] 

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/[username] is wot I got.

> and the file is nearly the same
> as the file that is presented by crontab -e, except for:
> <snip> 
> Why bother with the wierdly named /tmp/ file?

Do you have permission to edit /var/spool/cron/crontabs/baz ?

Cheers,

Alex.
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