[Linux-disciples] Best practice with cron

[Stephen R Laniel]

Before I started working where I work now, I habitually put
systemwide cron jobs in /etc/crontab. My boss puts them all
in root's cron. Is there a preferred method? The advantage
of the latter is that it gives you the syntax checks in
crontab(1), so that you can't hose the crontab(5) files.
There may be other advantages, but that seems like the big
one to me. And maybe also that /etc/crotnab is (at least
under Debian) world-readable. The disadvantage of using
root's crontab is that not every system has a root user;
Ubuntu, in particular, doesn't.

Any thoughts?

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