From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 20:38: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web119.yahoomail.com (web119.mail.yahoo.com [205.180.60.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6D5937B401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:37:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kalaiarasi@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 14733 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Feb 2001 04:37:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20010224043757.14732.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com> Received: from [203.106.67.228] by web119.yahoomail.com; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:37:57 PST Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:37:57 -0800 (PST) From: Kalai Kalaiarasi Subject: Re: crontab for root To: Dan O'Connor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <00b101c09e10$f00fb340$029b140a@danco> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Sir, I edit crontab using the command 'crontab -e'...just like how i set crontab as normal user. What else shall i look into when setting crontab as root??? You have any idea? Regards, Kalai --- Dan O'Connor wrote: > >Does anyone knows how to set crontab for root? I am > >able to set the crontab for normal user and it's > >working fine. When i try set crontab for root, the > >shell script doesnt seem to run. Is there anything > >else i need to do?? Please do help me.... > > > Root's crontab file is /etc/crontab > > The format is slightly different than a user crontab > file. > > --Dan > > -- > Dan O'Connor > On Matters of Most Grave Concern > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com > FreeBSD Cheat Sheets > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message