title: Saving Crontab files
body: <p>A simple question about Crontab, does it matter where I save crontab files? (creating the time-dependent jobs using crontab -e) or can they be read from any directory?</p>
  
  <p>I ask because it seemed that my crontab file got deleted because when I used the crontab -l it didn't return anything. However, I think that is because I saved it as a temporary file: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6362609/creating-more-permanent-crontab-files">Creating more permanent crontab files</a></p>