Difference between /etc/crontab and "crontab -e"

As Ignacio said, is the system wide crontab. The format of is like this: while is per user, it's worth mentioning with no argument the crontab command goes to the current users crontab. You can do to edit a specific users crontab. Notice in a per user crontab there is no 'user' field. An aspect of crontabs that may be confusing is that root also has its own crontab. e.g. will not edit See Configuring cron. In most Linux distros, per user crontabs are typically stored in: (vixie-cron). RHEL base…