From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 11: 4: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6726237B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:04:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from federation.addy.com (addy.com [208.11.142.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5723E43EC2 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:04:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09685 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:02:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:02:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Sander Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab -e In-Reply-To: <000a01c29c90$b29c5a10$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > */15 * * * * root /usr/libexec/rs2 >> /var/log/rs.log That's the format for /etc/crontab - not user crontabs. Normal users (including root) don't have to and in fact are prohibited from specifying a user to run their jobs under. Try this... '*/15 * * * * /usr/libexec/rs2 >> /var/log/rs.log' -=Jim=- P.S. Yes, there's a small difference between /etc/crontab and /var/cron/tabs/root - it's important to understand that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message