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Alternative versions of applications are managed by update-alternatives. If you are maintaining multiple versions of your applications, read the update-alternatives man page.
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Any jobs under the purview of the system administrator should be in <filename>/etc</filename>, since they are configuration files. If you have a root cron job for daily, weekly, or monthly runs, put them in <filename>/etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}</filename>. These are invoked from <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>, and will run in alphabetic order, which serializes them.
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On the other hand, if you have a cron job that (a) needs to run as a special user, or (b) needs to run at a special time or frequency, you can use either <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>, or, better yet, <filename>/etc/cron.d/whatever</filename>. These particular files also have an extra field that allows you to stipulate the user account under which the cron job runs.
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In either case, you just edit the files and cron will notice them automatically. There is no need to run a special command. For more information see cron(8), crontab(5), and <filename>/usr/share/doc/cron/README.Debian</filename>.
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Further Reading and Information
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If you need information about a particular program, you should first try <userinput>man <replaceable>program</replaceable></userinput>, or <userinput>info <replaceable>program</replaceable></userinput>.
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There is lots of useful documentation in <filename>/usr/share/doc</filename> as well. In particular, <filename>/usr/share/doc/HOWTO</filename> and <filename>/usr/share/doc/FAQ</filename> contain lots of interesting information. To submit bugs, look at <filename>/usr/share/doc/debian/bug*</filename>. To read about Debian-specific issues for particular programs, look at <filename>/usr/share/doc/(package name)/README.Debian</filename>.
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The <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/">Debian web site</ulink> contains a large quantity of documentation about Debian. In particular, see the <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/">Debian GNU/Linux FAQ</ulink> and the <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference">Debian Reference</ulink>. An index of more Debian documentation is available from the <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp">Debian Documentation Project</ulink>. The Debian community is self-supporting; to subscribe to one or more of the Debian mailing lists, see the <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe"> Mail List Subscription</ulink> page. Last, but not least, the <ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/">Debian Mailing List Archives</ulink> contain a wealth of information on Debian.
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A general source of information on GNU/Linux is the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Linux Documentation Project</ulink>. There you will find the HOWTOs and pointers to other very valuable information on parts of a GNU/Linux system.
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