From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 6:48:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2C715148 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 06:48:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) Received: from Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu ([132.170.240.30]:42630 "HELO pegasus.cc.ucf.edu" ident: "ewayte") by pegasus.cc.ucf.edu with SMTP id <4711-17617>; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 09:44:22 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 09:44:21 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Wayte To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Donald , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Crontab entry In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was simply going from experience - in our shop, we have each user control their own crontab using crontab -e. Granted, we use Solaris, but I did look up crontab in the online BSD man pages and the first two references I found were also correct. Next time, don't just "bzzt" somebody when they're off target and tell them to read the man page. It's more polite to say "yes, you are correct, but this works as well." On 20 Mar 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Date: 20 Mar 1999 18:31:03 +0100 > From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav > To: Eric Wayte > Cc: Donald , > freebsd-questions > Subject: Re: Crontab entry > > Eric Wayte writes: > > On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Donald wrote: > > > 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * root /usr/majordomo/wrapper > > > mj_key_cache 2>&1 | sendmail root > > Take out the root - the crontab is associated with the user that created > > it. See man crontab(1), man crontab(5) for additional info. > > Bzzt - his error was trying to run it through crontab. The "root" part > is correct. You should both read the cron(8) man page and especially > what it says about /etc/crontab. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message