On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:35:16 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Then why is it still there, leading one to think they can edit it for
global cron jobs?
You can edit it for global cron jobs (or you can drop files
in the /etc/cron.d/ directory). In fact I do edit it: I move
everything out of the /etc/anacrontab file and back into
/etc/crontab where it will run at a known time rather than
a random time (or course, I have to change the syntax and
say what time I want it to run).