[CDBUG-talk] Stupid question

[Dan Langille]

> On Sep 1, 2016, at 3:45 PM, freebsd at fongaboo.com wrote:
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> On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Patrick Muldoon wrote:
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>>> On Sep 1, 2016, at 3:07 PM, freebsd at fongaboo.com wrote:
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>>> What is the difference between editing /etc/crontab and running crontab -e?
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>> /etc/crontab is system crontab
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>> crontab -e  edits the  user specific crontab, which is generally stored in /var/cron/tabs/${user}
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> I guess I knew that... But what are the differences/pros/cons to editing /etc/crontab vs. running crontab -e... AS ROOT??
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You may wish to use sudoedit instead of editing a file as root.