I just start learning to use cron job. I've learned that cron jobs' setting and information are stored at /etc/crontab
and I come across this command crontab -e
, when I execute it, I was prompted to choose an editor.
I was expecting to see same content from these 2 different approaches, but actually they are totally different. In the second approach, after I choose an editor, I notice I am actually editing a file under /tmp/something
.
Why is that? And which one is the right way to set cron jobs?
My server is ubuntu 14.04 and I have webmin/virtualmin installed, I am not sure if they play any part in this matter.