From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 3 14:44:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16982 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smarter.than.nu (thought.calbbs.com [207.71.213.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16977 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:44:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smarter.than.nu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA03046; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:43:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:43:58 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? In-Reply-To: <199901032233.RAA01244@istari.home.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: > In tracking down the cause of my "/var/log/maillog.0: No such file > or directory" errors from newsyslog, I "discovered" that I had both > a root crontab entry and /etc/crontab. Both of these were running > newsyslog at the same time and they were conflicting with each > other. > > My question is why is root's crontab entry treated differently (i.e. > a file in /etc) as opposed to just having a crontab (in /var/cron/tabs)? /etc/crontab allows you to specify the user who commands should be run as -- Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message