Re: [Exim] Stopping rotation of logs

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:25:46AM -0700, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> Note that linux systems use two styles of crontabs. There is the per-user
> crontabs that you can examine as root using the command
>
> crontab -l username
>
> But there is also /etc/crontab which specifies a user for running in the
> crontab line. That is usually set to run various scripts.

Debian also has an /etc/cron.d directory; any files in there are considered
as though they were part of /etc/crontab. This allows packages to get cron
to do things without having to do any nasty munging of /etc/crontab (which
tends to cause problems as soon as anyone edits it by hand).