[aklug] Re: cron/crontab question

From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@zuelow.net>
Date: Wed Sep 23 2009 - 22:23:02 AKDT

On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Greg Madden wrote:
> I have a script to run every night. I set up a crontab entry for it. do
> I also need to put a copy of the script into '/etc/cron.daily" ? Debian
> system.
>
> TIA

No. If you have it in someone's crontab, their crontab will run it.

If you put it into cron.daily, it will run when all of the other daily tasks
run. (06:25 by default -- you can change that in /etc/crontab.)

James
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