Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:45:58 -0700 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Robin Huiser <listmail@node10c55.a2000.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron keeps bugging me... Message-ID: <37E3DDE6.569E@echidna.com> References: <199909171952.VAA43872@node10c55.a2000.nl> <19990917155231.A61093@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: <snip> > Aha. There is a difference between the "crontab for root" and the > "system crontab". The system crontab has an extra field (the "who" > field) that tells cron what user to run the job as. The system crontab > lives in /etc/crontab and is not edited via the "crontab -e" command. > You simply edit /etc/crontab. > > I don't know how you managed to get the system crontab into the crontab > for the root user, but put it back into /etc/crontab where it belongs :) > The crontab for the root user is usually empty. A related question - I've made crontab files for users, but now need to have a task run as root by cron. Should I edit the system crontab, or make a new crontab for root? Does it make a difference which way I do it? -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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