Crontab /etc/crontab not working

PatrickVeenstra

• May 23, 2016 09:31

I'm setting up a cron to do backups, and using /etc/crontab doesn't execute the job, while crontab -e does. What's the difference between them?

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 31, 2016 18:41

  New I'm setting up a cron to do backups, and using /etc/crontab doesn't execute the job, while crontab -e does. What's the difference between them?

  
  Hello, The "crontab -e" command edits the /var/spool/cron/root file when you are logged in as the "root" user. Thank you.

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