On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 09:49:11PM -0500, Dave Huang wrote:

> Putting it in /etc/crontab won't do anything...

>From the man page:

       Cron  searches  /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are
       named after accounts in /etc/passwd;  crontabs  found  are
       loaded  into  memory.  Cron also searches for /etc/crontab
       which is in a different  format  (see  crontab(5)).   Cron

As I remember, /etc/crontab is simply an old-style crontab, id est, one
with a user field. cron checks it every minute to see if it's changed.

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