How to change crontab's location Posted on
For a reason or another, you might one to change your crontab’s location. For instance, you might want to move it under a version-controlled directory or keep it under your backed up directories. When I reinstalled my home server, I’ve put all of my essential scripts under a directory on another partition to make distro upgrades easier.
The line below will change the crontab location for user nicolas
crontab -u nicolas /my/crontab/path