Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:11:43 +0100 From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: The Fadm Colk <colk@ixswr.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crontab Message-ID: <3CA4923F.D77A1212@cs.umu.se> References: <005a01c1d724$819366c0$d5b02341@tampabay.rr.com>
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> The Fadm Colk wrote: > > What should roots default crontab be if anything or is it all done in > /etc/crontab You should probably not edit the crontab file in /etc. Instead you should create another crontab file by using "crontab -e". If you're logged in as root it will be roots crontab, when issuing "crontab -e". If logged in as someone else, it will be that users crontab, when using "crontab -e". The cron files created by using "crontab -e" are in /var/cron/tabs but should not be edited directly. To read more about the crontab command, use "man crontab" You might want to setenv EDITOR your_favourite_editor so you don't run into trouble using vi, if you're not used to it, which is the default editor. For informational purposes the crontab in /etc is good reading. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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