From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 04:29:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA26492 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newsguy.com (perry.co.pathlink.com [207.211.168.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA26485 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:29:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reyesf@newsguy.com) Received: (from reyesf@localhost) by newsguy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA01894; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809161129.EAA01894@newsguy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Lanny Baron" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 07:29:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 95 (4.0.1111) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: crontab for root Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >The systems crontab is actually in /etc/crontab :) >Andrew Specht >-----Original Message----- >From: Lanny Baron >> Sorry for a dumb question, but is there no crontab running for root? I >tried crontab -e ...... >to set it up so that it goes to /tmp and >wipes out what ever is in there that is older than 4 days. Another approach, instead of adding an entry to crontab, could be to change the "daily" or "weekly" scripts. These are already called by crontab. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message