From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 3 17:38:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06377 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 17:38:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from epistolic.cynic.net (epistolic.cynic.net [199.175.137.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06366 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 17:38:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@cynic.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by epistolic.cynic.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA09683; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 17:37:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 17:37:43 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: Matthew Dillon cc: "Stephen J. Roznowski" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? In-Reply-To: <199901040126.RAA55023@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > The original cron program had *only* /etc/crontab. The support for it > is a backwards compatibility throwback that we really don't need any > more. Right. It's not used at all under NetBSD. > I suppose > /etc/crontab might have some limited usefullness running cron jobs for > special users that do not have real shells installed for their password > entry.... You should be able to do the same with per-user crontabs by setting SHELL=/bin/sh at the beginning of the crontab. cjs -- Curt Sampson 604 801 5335 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil. The most widely ported operating system in the world: http://www.netbsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message