From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 15:04:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F9A37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-172-174.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.172.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFEC44014 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:03:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from [192.168.254.205] ([192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h63M5Qj4059982 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030703212325.GA5665@mail.it.ca> References: <20030703212325.GA5665@mail.it.ca> X-Mailer: Eudora for Macintosh! Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:03:47 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: format of /etc/crontab? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 22:04:00 -0000 At 5:23 PM -0400 7/3/03, Paul Chvostek wrote: >The /etc/crontab is largely self-documenting. It is similar to the >format of the other crontab files, and includes a comment line: > >#minute hour mday month wday who command > >What further information do you need? None, in the file itself, but the crontab(5) man page should be tweaked. I have posted the following suggestion (to freebsd-doc@freebsd.org): The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be ... --- In the case of /etc/crontab, another field (username) follows the time and date fields. This is normally set to root, but other names can be specified; the command will be setuid(2) to the corresponding uid. The ``final'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be ... The user shouldn't be required to spot the added "who" field in the comment, let alone read the source code to determine that no other format changes have been made. The man pages promise to (and should) describe any format differences. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series