cron

[Mogens Kjaer]

Les Mikesell wrote:
...
> I don't have any idea why all 
> of those oddball places are used instead of just specifying the times 
> the normal way in root's crontab where you could see it all at once and 
> modify it with the crontab -e command.

It is easier for an rpm package to install an extra
file instead of modifying an existing file.

Try:

rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/*

Mogens

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