From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 08:30:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01227 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 08:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01215 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 08:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA00255; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 10:30:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id KAA23411; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 10:30:09 -0500 (CDT) To: "Harry Patterson" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: crontab problems References: <01bd60a5$e09d08a0$f46190cf@hp.harry.com> From: sfarrell+list@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 05 Apr 1998 10:30:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Harry Patterson"'s message of "Sun, 5 Apr 1998 11:16:58 -0400" Message-ID: <87wwd42sn2.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Harry Patterson" writes: > I had read the line you list below in man 5 crontab concerning the > system crontab. What is hidden well is that you don't have to do > anything (ie. crontab crontab) to activate the system crontab. [1] > I assume it is automatically checked every minute. This is where my > problems began by performing a root level crontab crontab thinking > this is the way to update the system crontab. Did I miss something > in the man pages that explains how the system crontab is loaded and > am I correct that the procedure is to [2] edit /etc/crontab and > restart the cron daemon? I've numbered two of your statements as [1] and [2]. They appear to contradict each other (or else I don't understand what you're saying). I believe that [2] is the actual behavior... I don't see it in the docs, so I suppose experimentation is the only way to find out... -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message