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Daniel Bye wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:01:47PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>  
>
>>albi writes:
>>
>>a> check the /etc/periodic/ dir
>>
>>I've seen it.  But where does it run from?  Supposedly you're not
>>supposed to modify crontab files directly, but where do these jobs
>>belong if crontab -l from root won't list them.  Is there some sort of
>>"system" crontab in addition to those for root and other users, or how
>>does it work?
>>    
>>
>
>/etc/crontab is indeed the "system" crontab.  You can safely edit this
>one by hand.
>
>The following three lines are the ones you're interested in:
>
># Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
>1       3       *       *       *       root    periodic daily
>15      4       *       *       6       root    periodic weekly
>30      5       1       *       *       root    periodic monthly
>
>Note the additional field, before the command is named.  It determines
>which user the command runs as.
>
>See crontab(5) for more details.
>
>Dan
>
>  
>


As well as periodic(8), which is an excellent exposition on the
subject (if you read manpages at all ... it's real nice compared
to some :-)

Kevin Kinsey