From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 9 6:46: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5D437B400; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 06:46:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6EC43E42; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 06:46:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g69Djwl08187; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g69DjtD02251; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:45:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vsw070.mitre.org (128.29.156.70) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 10775469; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:45:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2AE910.BF80794A@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:45:52 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE? References: <20020708152752.X84324-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote: > > > > > The 4.6 systems I've installed don't have a default root crontab > > There is no default root crontab. You create one if you want it by using > 'crontab -e'. However, for system functions you're better off using > /etc/crontab, since that's more visible, and easier to back up, etc. ??? More visible? New people to the system can never find that file. Heck, I'm always forgetting where it is. It wouldn't be so bad if it just weren't so inconsistent. Who doesn't backup /var? Is it harder than backing up / somehow? -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message