What is the difference between using crontab -e and /etc/crontab [duplicate]
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I wish to run stuff from startup and also trigger reboots using cron.
I was using sudo crontab -e and adding commands there. The commands work apart from the reboots. The reboots do not happen all the time. I wish to reboot at 4 am every morning. My added line is :
00 4 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -r now >> /var/log/daily-backup.log 2>&1
I now instead modified /etc/crontab instead for the reboots and it seems to work. Why is this? Shouldn't crontab -e work anyways because commands get run as root?
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I wish to run stuff from startup and also trigger reboots using cron.
I was using sudo crontab -e and adding commands there. The commands work apart from the reboots. The reboots do not happen all the time. I wish to reboot at 4 am every morning. My added line is :
00 4 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -r now >> /var/log/daily-backup.log 2>&1
I now instead modified /etc/crontab instead for the reboots and it seems to work. Why is this? Shouldn't crontab -e work anyways because commands get run as root?
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I wish to run stuff from startup and also trigger reboots using cron.
I was using sudo crontab -e and adding commands there. The commands work apart from the reboots. The reboots do not happen all the time. I wish to reboot at 4 am every morning. My added line is :
00 4 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -r now >> /var/log/daily-backup.log 2>&1
I now instead modified /etc/crontab instead for the reboots and it seems to work. Why is this? Shouldn't crontab -e work anyways because commands get run as root?
debian cron root reboot etc
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I wish to run stuff from startup and also trigger reboots using cron.
I was using sudo crontab -e and adding commands there. The commands work apart from the reboots. The reboots do not happen all the time. I wish to reboot at 4 am every morning. My added line is :
00 4 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -r now >> /var/log/daily-backup.log 2>&1
I now instead modified /etc/crontab instead for the reboots and it seems to work. Why is this? Shouldn't crontab -e work anyways because commands get run as root?
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If you do crontab -e then you're modifying the per user cron entry, typically in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$USERNAME.
Because these are per-user, they don't have the requirement for a username.
So the entry would look something like
00 4 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now >> /var/log/daily-backup.log 2>&1
In contrast, the /etc/crontab (and files in /etc/cron.d/) are sytem crontab entries, and so require a username.
You can see what cron is doing by looking at /var/log/syslog (on Debian; /var/log/cron on RedHat). If your job is being called then there should be a line in your daily-backup.log... potentially saying that it can't find the "root" command.
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If you do crontab -e then you're modifying the per user cron entry, typically in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$USERNAME.
Because these are per-user, they don't have the requirement for a username.
So the entry would look something like
00 4 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now >> /var/log/daily-backup.log 2>&1
In contrast, the /etc/crontab (and files in /etc/cron.d/) are sytem crontab entries, and so require a username.
You can see what cron is doing by looking at /var/log/syslog (on Debian; /var/log/cron on RedHat). If your job is being called then there should be a line in your daily-backup.log... potentially saying that it can't find the "root" command.
answered Feb 18 at 14:45
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If you do crontab -e then you're modifying the per user cron entry, typically in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$USERNAME.
Because these are per-user, they don't have the requirement for a username.
So the entry would look something like
00 4 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now >> /var/log/daily-backup.log 2>&1
In contrast, the /etc/crontab (and files in /etc/cron.d/) are sytem crontab entries, and so require a username.
You can see what cron is doing by looking at /var/log/syslog (on Debian; /var/log/cron on RedHat). If your job is being called then there should be a line in your daily-backup.log... potentially saying that it can't find the "root" command.
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If you do crontab -e then you're modifying the per user cron entry, typically in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$USERNAME.
Because these are per-user, they don't have the requirement for a username.
So the entry would look something like
00 4 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now >> /var/log/daily-backup.log 2>&1
In contrast, the /etc/crontab (and files in /etc/cron.d/) are sytem crontab entries, and so require a username.
You can see what cron is doing by looking at /var/log/syslog (on Debian; /var/log/cron on RedHat). If your job is being called then there should be a line in your daily-backup.log... potentially saying that it can't find the "root" command.
answered Feb 18 at 14:45
Stephen HarrisStephen Harris
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If you do crontab -e then you're modifying the per user cron entry, typically in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$USERNAME.
Because these are per-user, they don't have the requirement for a username.
So the entry would look something like
00 4 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now >> /var/log/daily-backup.log 2>&1
In contrast, the /etc/crontab (and files in /etc/cron.d/) are sytem crontab entries, and so require a username.
You can see what cron is doing by looking at /var/log/syslog (on Debian; /var/log/cron on RedHat). If your job is being called then there should be a line in your daily-backup.log... potentially saying that it can't find the "root" command.
answered Feb 18 at 14:45
Stephen HarrisStephen Harris
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answered Feb 18 at 14:45
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answered Feb 18 at 14:45
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answered Feb 18 at 14:45
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