Date: 05 Apr 1998 10:30:09 -0500 From: sfarrell+list@farrell.org To: "Harry Patterson" <harry@visiontm.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: crontab problems Message-ID: <87wwd42sn2.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: "Harry Patterson"'s message of "Sun, 5 Apr 1998 11:16:58 -0400" References: <01bd60a5$e09d08a0$f46190cf@hp.harry.com>
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"Harry Patterson" <harry@visiontm.com> writes: > I had read the line you list below in man 5 crontab concerning the > system crontab. What is hidden well is that you don't have to do > anything (ie. crontab crontab) to activate the system crontab. [1] > I assume it is automatically checked every minute. This is where my > problems began by performing a root level crontab crontab thinking > this is the way to update the system crontab. Did I miss something > in the man pages that explains how the system crontab is loaded and > am I correct that the procedure is to [2] edit /etc/crontab and > restart the cron daemon? I've numbered two of your statements as [1] and [2]. They appear to contradict each other (or else I don't understand what you're saying). I believe that [2] is the actual behavior... I don't see it in the docs, so I suppose experimentation is the only way to find out... -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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