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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: bug: /usr/src/etc/crontab
To: smace@metal-mail.neosoft.com (Scott Mace)
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 20:07:56 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Does crontab really support the "who" column in /usr/src/etc/crontab?
> > > 
> > > I thought that functionality was removed with the release of cron
> > > that we have?
> > 
> > No, that functionality was added when we went with Vixie Cron 3.0.
> > 
> 
> ok, then why does this happen:
> 
> /etc/crontab entry:
> 0       *       *       *       *       root    /bin/ls

I don't know, either you have an out of date date cron, or something
else strange.  I cut and pasted the above and stuck it in my cron tab
(well, okay, I changed the time so it would run right away and got this:

I think we would have had lots of users complaining about /etc/weekly,
/etc/daily and such that are run from /etc/crontab if this was a problem
in any of the releases.   Since we have not had this I will point my
finger at something on your system, either a non-standard or old cron,
or perhaps a symlink in /var/cron/tabs/root -> /etc/crontab or some
such strange ness.

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