From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 11: 4:22 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 4A1A437B404 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:04:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-frontier.org (ns1.the-frontier.org [216.86.199.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE3543EDA for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) Received: from [192.168.66.249] (dhcp-249-66-168-192.the-frontier.org [192.168.66.249]) by the-frontier.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA60872; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:03:41 -0800 Subject: Re: crontab -e From: "Paul A. Scott" To: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200212051244.51766.mbettinger@championelevators.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 When you use a user crontab (crontab -e), you don't include the user field. The user's own id is implied. I always put a (comment) header line in the user crontab so that it's clear what the fields are. So, your example: > */15 * * * * root /usr/libexec/rs2 >> /var/log/rs.log becomes: #minute hour mday month wday command */15 * * * * /usr/libexec/rs2 >> /var/log/rs.log Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message