From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 2 23:33:47 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA02607 for current-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 23:33:47 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA02580 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 23:33:19 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA05011; Wed, 3 May 1995 08:33:11 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA28639 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 3 May 1995 08:33:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA18318 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 3 May 1995 08:20:16 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199505030620.IAA18318@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bug: /usr/src/etc/crontab To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 08:20:16 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: <199505030202.UAA00325@metal.ops.neosoft.com> from "Scott Mace" at May 2, 95 08:02:31 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 593 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Scott Mace wrote: > > > > Does crontab really support the "who" column in /usr/src/etc/crontab? > > No, that functionality was added when we went with Vixie Cron 3.0. > ok, then why does this happen: > > /etc/crontab entry: > 0 * * * * root /bin/ls > root: not found It's just reminding you kindly that a publically readable crontab file is considered a big security hole. Use /var/cron/tabs instead. :-] -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)