Re: questions about cron.daily

From	Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: questions about cron.daily
Date	2023-04-07 18:00 +0200
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Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like,
>> typically in a directory like ~/.cron/.
>
> Is that... normal?  I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep a private
> copy of their crontab in their home directory like that.

I don't know if it's normal but sounds like a good practice, to have a
backup of your crontab. I've been bitten by this sometime when my old
shell provider retired a system and I had no copy of my crontab. My home
dir was not affected by that retirement since those were all NFS mounted
from a different server.

I think they did dig out my crontab from tape when I asked.

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questions about cron.daily coreyh@free.fr - 2023-04-06 13:40 +0200
  Re: questions about cron.daily Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-04-06 13:50 +0200
  Re: questions about cron.daily Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-04-06 17:40 +0200
    Re: questions about cron.daily Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2023-04-06 18:40 +0200
      Re: questions about cron.daily Pierre Frenkiel <frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2023-04-06 18:50 +0200
        Re: questions about cron.daily "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-04-06 19:10 +0200
          Re: questions about cron.daily Alexis Grigoriou <alexis@nanoid.net> - 2023-04-06 20:30 +0200
        Re: questions about cron.daily Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2023-04-06 21:30 +0200
          Re: questions about cron.daily David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-07 00:50 +0200
            Re: questions about cron.daily Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-04-07 01:00 +0200
              Re: questions about cron.daily <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-07 07:10 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Alex King <alex@rimuhosting.com> - 2023-04-08 02:20 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-04-08 11:10 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-08 11:20 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-04-08 14:40 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-08 17:20 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2023-04-08 17:20 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-08 19:00 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-09 10:00 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-11 11:20 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-09 10:00 +0200
              Re: questions about cron.daily Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2023-04-07 18:00 +0200
              Re: questions about cron.daily Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2023-04-07 18:00 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2023-04-07 23:50 +0200
              Re: questions about cron.daily David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-09 18:10 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily zithro <slack@rabbit.lu> - 2023-04-09 21:50 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-10 03:30 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-10 04:30 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-10 08:40 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-11 05:50 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily zithro <slack@rabbit.lu> - 2023-04-10 17:50 +0200
                Re: questions about cron.daily David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-11 05:50 +0200
      Re: questions about cron.daily Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2023-04-06 19:00 +0200
      Re: questions about cron.daily Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-06 19:10 +0200
      Re: questions about cron.daily Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-04-06 19:50 +0200
      Re: questions about cron.daily Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-04-06 19:50 +0200
      Re: questions about cron.daily davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-06 23:30 +0200
        Re: questions about cron.daily ken@openmbox.net - 2023-04-07 02:20 +0200
          Re: questions about cron.daily Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2023-04-07 02:30 +0200
            Re: questions about cron.daily Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-04-07 03:50 +0200

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