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This went unmentoned anywhere else I could find, not even in the man page of crontab. what's the difference between them?

some people say they don't have /var/spool/cron/crontabs, but one can easily find lots of systems with this path. for example, here.

note here I'm not talking about one specific linux distro, if these two paths come from different distros, I would like to know the reason behind this.

Sajuuk
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I think it depends on your distro.

On Fedora I can see only /var/spool/cron and the man for cron says:

/var/spool/cron directory that contains user crontables created by the crontab command. I can't find /var/spool/cron/crontabs.

On other systems (Maybe Debian) the crontabs dir is the same as the cron dir.

Ambrogio De Lorenzo
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