From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 9 9:51:12 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 236FF37B4A3 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA15A43E3B for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g69Gp3LA052680; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g69Gp3Lg052679; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200207091651.g69Gp3Lg052679@apollo.backplane.com> To: Thomas Seck Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE? References: <20020708152752.X84324-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> <3D2AE910.BF80794A@mitre.org> <20020709161746.GA444@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> 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 :* 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. : :-- :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message