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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 17:54:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>
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To: brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different?
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> From: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
> 
> 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

I understand the difference, but why would this be better than installing
crontabs for the various (system) users? (for example, news).

-SR


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