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Re: is my SL6 /etc/crontab *supposed* to be empty?
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:02:19 +0000
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>  perhaps i'm just confused, but i took a peek at my /etc/crontab file
> on a fairly fresh install of SL6 and was surprised that it had
> absolutely no entries that i normally expect to see there --
> references to "run-parts" kicking off cron.hourly, cron.daily and so
> on.

Hmm this seems to have changed in SL6.
man 5 crontab
suggests that they are now in
    /etc/anacrontab
which they are for me.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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