From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 15:14:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29721 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 15:14:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nwalme.pair.com (nwalme.pair.com [209.68.1.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29556 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 15:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@nwalme.pair.com) Received: (from dima@localhost) by nwalme.pair.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id SAA23203; Sun, 17 May 1998 18:13:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199805172213.SAA23203@nwalme.pair.com> X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root's crontab? To: coleman@math.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman) Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 18:13:13 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805172001.QAA16435@cypress.math.gatech.edu> from Richard Coleman at "May 17, 98 04:01:56 pm" From: Dima Dorfman X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? This is the system crontab, not roots. > > Also, the fact that this file is world-readable, seems like a > bad idea (a small, but potential security risk). > I think so as well, however, the chance is very small. > 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 > -- Dima Dorfman (dima@zwb.net) "640k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981 Micro$oft Sucks! FreeBSD Rules! http://www.freebsd.org/ Finger dima@zwb.net for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message