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10.8. Other Operating Systems

Cron is available on almost all UNIX systems, with very similar capabilities. That means that this module appears almost identically on all operating systems, with only a couple of minor differences. On some, there is no Input to command field available for when creating or editing a job. On others, when controlling which users have access to Cron, the default Allow all users option will be replaced with Allow all users except root or Deny all users.

Internally, other operating systems use different directories for storing Cron jobs—Solaris for example uses /var/spool/cron/crontabs instead of /var/spool/cron on Linux. Most other systems do not have an /etc/crontab file or /etc/cron.d directory, either. When using ...