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- From: aej@manyjars.WPI.EDU (Allan E Johannesen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: why is /usr/lib/crontab a link to /etc/crontab?
- Date: 21 Dec 92 13:17:40
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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- In-reply-to: grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 16:00:55 GMT
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- >>>>> On 21 Dec 92 16:00:55 GMT, grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen) said:
-
- grosen> I'm curious about why (Ultrix 4.2a) /usr/lib/crontab is a
- grosen> symlink to /etc/crontab? I'd like to get rid of the symlink
- grosen> and have a single copy in /usr/lib. Will I be breaking
- grosen> anything if I do this?
-
- Probably not. My assumption for the symlink is to leave /usr/ read-
- only, and have the per-station things in /etc/. Here, we mount /usr/
- to stations, so this kind of structure permits different stations to
- have the same /usr/, but allows different crontabs.
-
- Actually, we run the excellent vixie cron, which is totally different,
- but the pointer layout is valid for the "normal" cron. For example,
- there are pointers /usr/lib/sendmail* -> /etc/... for the same reason
- (except we don't run DEC sendmail, but that's another story).
-