Question Plesk messing with crontab file

[hessodreamy]

I always edit my cron jobs using crontab -e on the command line, never with the Plesk tool. However it seems that occasionally Plesk (I think it's Plesk doing it) will overwrite the cron file with its own version. Sure, all the jobs are there, but it's removed any organisation I've made to the file.

Any idea how/when it's doing this (eg during upgrade) and if there's a way to stop it?

Thanks
Plesk Onyx
Version 17.0.17 Update #12

 

[PeterKi]

I have the same problem.
Plesk totally messes up the root crontab on my ubuntu server.
It comments some lines and resorts the file thus separating my comments and ruining my readability structure.
Please make this more sophisticated.
A possible approach could be to add comments to identify the PLESK section and only modify this
e.g.
crontab -l
...
# start of PLESK jobs
...
# end of PLESK jobs

Version 17.0.17 Update #21

 

[Bitpalast]

What speaks against using Plesk to manage the cron jobs?

 

[PeterKi]

IMHO: comments within the file, ease of use, intelligent grouping, process automation, control over MAILTO, etc