Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt:
It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea NOT to change root's crontab. Any of these may get overwritten by maintenance.
/etc/crontab will NEVER get overwritten to make it clear: NEVER EVER
fedora did not overwrite any crontab from FC5 to F15 now because rpm-packages mark such configurations so the new versions get installed as .rpmnew