Re: cron job problem

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan
> <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up
> > special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall),
> > cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs.
>
>     Quick clarification and correction here:
>
>         The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is
> batch-processed by cron is called the crontab.  When it is executed,
> it is referred to as a cron job.
>
>     That said, Ash is right about the rest.  Different OS flavors
> (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use
> different path and file standards.  Linux, in general, uses a command
> `crontab` which opens the local user's environment-configured editor
> to modify the user's crontab in the spool.
>
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