Date: 17 Sep 2004 15:38:12 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab file (root user) Message-ID: <44656c3cuz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4185.209.167.16.15.1095428161.squirrel@209.167.16.15> References: <4185.209.167.16.15.1095428161.squirrel@209.167.16.15>
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"Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> writes: > I'm wondering where the crontab is located for the root user. I know > there is the system crontab in /etc, however doing a #crontab -e when > su'd to root, it comes up with a different crontab. Right. Just as you said: the former is the system crontab, the latter is the root user's crontab. The former has an extra field that indicates which user to run a command as, the latter is exactly the same as any other user's crontab (and is stored in /var/cron/tabs just all the other user crontabs). I'm not quite sure what your confusion is: did my previous paragraph eliminate it?
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