Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:05:52 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format of /etc/crontab? Message-ID: <20030703210552.GB93458@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <p05200f42bb2a44de7749@[192.168.254.205]> References: <p05200f42bb2a44de7749@[192.168.254.205]>
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:54:36PM -0700 or thereabouts, Rich Morin wrote: > The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: > > Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after > accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron > also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a different format (see > crontab(5)). > > The crontab(5) man page, however, says nothing about any differences in > the file formats. Instead, it appears to describe only the format that > is used in /var/cron/tabs/* files. > > I would like to know precisely how the format of /etc/crontab differs, > but I can't find any man page that addresses this. Help? Normal crontabs have the time fields, and then the command to run. /etc/crontab has an additional field after the time fields but before the command -- the user to run the command as (usually root). This is said in comments in /etc/crontab. -- Josh > > -r > -- > email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. > http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. > http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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