Re: System Slows Down
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:41:09 -0800
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:44:38AM +0200, Barak Korren wrote:
> > 2. The right way to configure crontab it to use the contab (1)
> > command.
>
> This is only the case when you want to update a user's crontab. The
> version of cron distributed with Debian automagically detects when
> /etc/crontab has been updated. The crontab itself can't be edited
> with crontab(1) AFAIK.
I think you're both partly right here. The system crontab can't be
edited with the crontab command. It looks like The Debian Way to do
cron is to add scripts to /etc/cron.daily or /etc/cron.weekly or
/etc/cron.monthly depending on how often you want the jobs to run.
It also looks like postgres doesn't want to play that way; it has a
piece of crontab under /etc/cron.d.
My /etc/crontab has only three lines: one each for daily, weekly, and
monthly jobs.
Does yours have other stuff (that you didn't add)?
Kevin
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