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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 18:13:39 -0500 (EST)
From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>
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To: ian@bulinfo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different?
In-Reply-To: Mail from 'Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>'
      dated: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 01:00:33 +0200
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> From: Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>
> 
> "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote:
> > 
> > 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)?
> > 
> 
> /var/cron/tabs/root contains the root user crontab settings and
> /var/crontab contains system crontab settings.
> it's for convenience I think.

[Not trying to be argumentative....]

In the case of the "default" files, what is the difference?
/usr/src/etc/crontab only contains entries for root, no other users.
[Isn't root synonymous with "system crontab settings" in this case?]

Thanks,
-SR


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