From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 8 15:29: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A61A37B401 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D4843E6A for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:28:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (zoot.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.89]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/y.out) with ESMTP id g68MSdR26043; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dougb@localhost) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g68MScu1084734; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:28:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020708152752.X84324-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote: > > The 4.6 systems I've installed don't have a default root crontab There is no default root crontab. You create one if you want it by using 'crontab -e'. However, for system functions you're better off using /etc/crontab, since that's more visible, and easier to back up, etc. HTH, Doug -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message