From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 00:19:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA24526 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 00:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA24517 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 00:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id JAA17194 ; Wed, 22 May 1996 09:18:52 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id JAA04768 ; Wed, 22 May 1996 09:18:46 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.5/keltia-uucp-2.7) id IAA13184; Wed, 22 May 1996 08:36:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199605220636.IAA13184@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: CRON: it loves me To: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 08:36:46 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: edmond@UWYO.EDU, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Dan Busarow at "May 21, 96 06:08:40 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1983 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Dan Busarow said: > My root file in /var/cron/tabs works fine, and so does /etc/crontabs. > > I'm used to running crontab -e and it doesn't seem to hurt anything, even > if you are root. On 2.1R You're not supposed to have a cron file for "root" except for /etc/crontab... Or you have to be careful of what you put in either one. They do not have the same format. That's not to say you can't do it. It is just that it is not the preferred way. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #2: Fri May 10 21:09:14 MET DST 1996