From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 14:30:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08594 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08403 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:29:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23225; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <3560A803.6863BF0@dal.net> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:28:35 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Coleman CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root's crontab? References: <199805172001.QAA16435@cypress.math.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Coleman wrote: > > When I do "crontab -l" as root, the system states that root has no > crontab. Yet it apppears the file /etc/crontab is functioning as > root's crontab (since logfiles are being rotated, etc.). Your assumption is incorrect. /etc/crontab is the system's crontab, not root's. > Also, the fact that this file is world-readable, seems like a > bad idea (a small, but potential security risk). So why don't you change it? I can't imagine that it would make a difference, however if it breaks feel free to write back since that would indicate a bug. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message