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[Hektor]

I made some crontab jobs that look like this:

10 2 * * *      /script

10 3 * * Mon  /script

10 4 * 1 *      /script

Which says run the script every day at 2:10.
Every Monday at 3:10.
And on the first of the month at 4:10.

It doesn't work (and it turned out to be a script error) but I found these directories:

# /etc/cron.daily/

# /etc/cron.weekly/

# /etc/cron.monthly/ 

And the daily/weekly had scripts in them. I assume you place a script in these directories and it executes at the respected time (daily/weekly/month). Is this true? If so, why are they there instead of using the crontab? Which is better for me to use running scripts as root?

[Tor]

I think that those directories do the same as your crontab that you have setup... but.. I think there is suppose to be a crontab script that executes daily which goes through those directories and executes every script. I don't know for sure though cause I never used it.