[CDBUG-talk] Stupid question

Patrick Muldoon doon at inoc.net
Thu Sep 1 15:17:22 EDT 2016


> On Sep 1, 2016, at 3:07 PM, freebsd at fongaboo.com wrote:
> 
> 
> What is the difference between editing /etc/crontab and running crontab -e?


/etc/crontab is system crontab 

crontab -e  edits the  user specific crontab, which is generally stored in /var/cron/tabs/${user} 

-Patrick 

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