Hello all--
OK, the issue is half solved!
My /etc/crontab had probably 15 or 20 lines in it, among which was this line. Can you catch what is wrong with it?
Code:
31 01 18 2,4,6,8,,10,12 * root /etc/cron.doug/bkmonthtwo
I didn't, and this one line wrong meant that cron would not run anything from this crontab. I removed the extra comma and now all of it is running, at least so much of it as the time for which has arrived.
So there is in that a little lesson for others, I hope: make sure every line is right or the whole crontab fails.
But the other half of my question remains: Why are there these two crontabs, the one in /etc/crontab and the one reached via sudo crontab -e? Do you use one for one thing, one for another? Do they have different things they can do?
Thanks!
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