From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 29 19:54:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Gloria.CAM.ORG (Gloria.CAM.ORG [205.151.116.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB3237B5AA for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:54:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from intmktg@CAM.ORG) Received: from localhost (intmktg@localhost) by Gloria.CAM.ORG (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07824 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:44:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:44:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Tardif To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cron(8) and /usr/local/etc/crontab Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to the cron(8) manpage, the daemon only searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files and /etc/crontab. To my surprise, /usr/local/etc/crontab is not among the searched files. From previous observations, I've noticed /usr/local/etc can often be perceived as a mirror of /etc. For instance, according to periodic(8), the program searches for both /etc/periodic and /usr/local/etc/periodic which is actually defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. So why is it that cron(8) doesn't search for /usr/local/etc/crontab? Just curious as to there being an explanation other than "we just didn't find a need for it". Marc Tardif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message