From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 3 19:00:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12935 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 19:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt087nac.san.rr.com (dt087nac.san.rr.com [24.94.19.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12930 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 19:00:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt087nac.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15213; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 18:59:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 18:59:53 -0800 (PST) From: Studded X-Sender: doug@dt087nac.san.rr.com To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? In-Reply-To: <199901032233.RAA01244@istari.home.net> 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, 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)? For future reference, this question belongs in freebsd-questions. Your question is based on an incorrect premise. The crontab in /etc is the *system* crontab. The root user has a crontab just like every other user. Personally I think this is a convenience, since I don't have to sort through a bunch of seperate crontab files for "system users" when I want to see why something has gone belly up. YMMV Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Like desperadoes waiting for a train . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message