On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 14:16, Matthew Miller wrote: > > You shouldn't edit the crontab files directly either. There is a system > > tool for that. > > Indeed. But it's still not really "transient temporary data", since many > people don't keep a "master copy" anywhere else. I'd put /var/spool/cron back from a backup if I replaced a machine, but I'm not sure I really consider it better or not to keep running jobs for a user who has forgotten what they are and when they should run... -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx