From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 8:11:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tninet.se (lennier.tninet.se [195.100.94.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7623337B417 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:11:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.umu.se (h16n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.16]) by lennier.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 189698.418303.1017.0s16057561lennier ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:11:43 +0100 Message-ID: <3CA4923F.D77A1212@cs.umu.se> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:11:43 +0100 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Fadm Colk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crontab References: <005a01c1d724$819366c0$d5b02341@tampabay.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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