From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 07:39:18 2004 Return-Path: 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 1262216A4CE for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 07:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB12043D3F for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 07:39:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C3269A39; Sat, 22 May 2004 10:37:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40AF65C5.1060506@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 10:37:57 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040506 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Fleck References: <20040521141741.53444.qmail@web40403.mail.yahoo.com> <20040522082220.I29103@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <20040522082220.I29103@grond.sourballs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: carvin5string cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron can't find root or operator X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 14:39:18 -0000 David Fleck wrote: > If you already have a file written in the proper format, you can load it > as your crontab by specifying 'crontab {filename}'. (That's what section > 6.6.1 in the handbook is trying to say. Unfortunately, it is not at all > clear on this.) There was an outstanding PR on this ... I made a few additions, and I think the handbook will explain this much better now. Sounds like a committer is going to get this into the tree within the next few days. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs%2F66963 -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com