cron usage

[Doug Clapp]

I'm using busybox crond and crontab on a Puppy PC distribution.  The 
crond runs with no parameters.  I use crontab to create/edit my cron 
file.  The file itself is indeed in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/user
  (where "user" is the owner of the crontab file).  I've been using this 
for several years and so far it has worked as I expect.  I haven't used 
the -c parameter to crond or crontab but as I read the help info it 
means crond and crontab use that path instead of
/var/spool/cron/crontabs.  When you speak of "cron jobs" it reminds me 
of the way "at" jobs were stored when I used it under several flavors of 
Unix.  Are you sure you aren't conflating the two (cron and at)?

As to whether anybody still watches the list - some people have jobs and 
other commitments so they may not read it every day.  Some are not 
necessarily interested in or expert in a given area (cron in this case), 
some may wait to see if any other subscriber has a better response 
first, some may have other reasons for not responding right away.

Doug Clapp