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Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 1
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crontab under /etc and /private/etc |
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2002-12-16 12:24:55 |
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anonymous2
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hi Chris,
first, i want to let you know how great those articles are! thank you very much for them.
i was just wondering, why there are several places, where crontab can be edited in Mac OS X 10.2.x. if the super-user-crontab is in /private/etc, what is it then in /etc ??? i mean, which one do i have to edit and which one not? and if i edited both with identical settings, would this mess my system up?
according to the older series (10.1), it had to be modified in /etc... i am just a bit confused now.
thanks in advance!
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crontab under /etc and /private/etc
2002-12-20 10:36:21
Chris Stone | 
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Actually, /etc is just a symbolic link (like a Finder alias) that points to /private/etc. Therefore /etc/crontab and /private/etc/crontab is one and the same file.
So, you can specify either path without problem...
--Chris