Multiple crontab files

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.5K blaze of typing glory, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Question ...
> 
> Crontab normally runs whatever is in /etc/crontab.
> 
> But if I also create /root/crontab and do "crontab /root/crontab' does 
> this *replace* what it was running from /etc or is it in *addition* to?

Most implementations *replace* the existing crontab. Dillon's
cron lets you specify a different directory (cron -c /some/dir),
but only root can do that.
 
> I know that a crontab for a normal user would be in addition to, but 
> wasn't sure about user root.

You might consider using /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,whatever}, but it 
really depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

Kurt
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