On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>> crontab -e =>> add at the end =>> @reboot /usr/local/bin/noip2 => ^^^^^^ =>Woah, cool. I never knew that -- very useful. I don't recommend it. Most things that happen at boot time are under root it. When you place things in rc.local you know the order they will run in. Crontab entires are typically intended to not know anything about order. To say that using this feature is obscure is an understatement. Typically, people not only don't know to look in a crontab to see what's going to happen at boot, they also don't have a convention for a location of the file to be fed to crontab to reset it when needed.
I agree, probably not the best for system tasks.