From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 27 22:34:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3B21518A for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:34:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.2/8.9.1) id WAA40233; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:33:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:33:32 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: Chris Cc: unknown , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/security Message-ID: <19990227223332.A40162@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <36D8769B.7EEBCD84@netshell.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris on Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 01:19:20AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 01:19:20AM -0500, Chris wrote: > Root's crontab is different from the other users crontab, this is why it > is in /etc/crontab Well, root has a normal crontab just like anybody else, but /etc/crontab is a system crontab, with an extra field that indicates what user the command should run as, not necessarily root. -- Matthew Hunt * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message