Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Thomas Seck <tmseck-lists@netcologne.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE? Message-ID: <200207091651.g69Gp3Lg052679@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20020708152752.X84324-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> <3D2AE910.BF80794A@mitre.org> <20020709161746.GA444@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>
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:* Jason Andresen (jandrese@mitre.org):
:
:[/etc/crontab vs. crontab -u root]
:
:> ??? More visible? New people to the system can never find that file.
:> Heck, I'm always forgetting where it is. It wouldn't be so bad if
:> it just weren't so inconsistent.
:
:See cron(8), second paragraph.
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:Thomas Seck
:
/etc/crontab should probably not be touched, nor should /etc/periodic,
or upgrading the system will be nightmware. If you want to use the
periodic mechanisms you can create your own periodic directory
hierarchy ala /usr/local/etc/periodic, and if you just want to mess
with your own root crontab you should use 'crontab -e' as root. If
you want to override the system default /etc/periodic you can create
your own /etc/periodic.conf (else the system uses the default
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf).
It's simple. See man periodic.conf.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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