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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:34:02 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Johan Kuuse <kuuse@redantigua.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-doc Digest, Vol 331, Issue 4
Message-ID:  <4A71A14A.5070904@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <1248956089.1316.68.camel@m20.>
References:  <20090730120024.AA78B10656F9@hub.freebsd.org> <1248956089.1316.68.camel@m20.>

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Johan Kuuse wrote:

> The crontab examples itself has an incorrect syntax:

not necessarily so:
 
> BAD (current example):
> @daily                                  root freebsd-update cron

This is correct for use in /etc/crontab

> Working example:
> @daily                                  /usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron

while this one is correct for use in a per-user crontab file managed by
crontab(1), and stored in /var/cron/tabs/username

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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