On 3/12/07, Sudev Barar sbarar@gmail.com wrote:
You should be appending so would you not use >> instead of >
I disagree. Matt's example created a new file in /etc/cron.d/ Ideally you'd have one job, or one related set of jobs per file in this directory. Using >> would create a situation (upgrades) where you could potentially have the same job listed multiple times in the cron file. Using > allows you to keep exactly what you want, and only what you want in that file.