From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 13:03:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08805 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 13:03:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from math.gatech.edu (root@math.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08767 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 13:02:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from coleman@math.gatech.edu) Received: from cypress.math.gatech.edu (root@cypress.math.gatech.edu [130.207.146.13]) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA11191 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 16:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cypress.math.gatech.edu (coleman@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA16435 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 16:01:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199805172001.QAA16435@cypress.math.gatech.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: root's crontab? Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 16:01:56 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I do "crontab -l" as root, the system states that root has no crontab. Yet it apppears the file /etc/crontab is functioning as root's crontab (since logfiles are being rotated, etc.). This is counter-intuitive. Is there a rationale for this behavior? Also, the fact that this file is world-readable, seems like a bad idea (a small, but potential security risk). This is with FreeBSD 2.2.6. Thanks, -- Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message