From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 14:19:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA05687 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:19:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from toth.ferginc.com (toth.ferginc.com [205.139.23.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA05676 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:19:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from branson@toth.ferginc.com) Received: (from branson@localhost) by toth.ferginc.com (You_Can/Keep_Guessing) id RAA21453; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:17:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19971119171746.42578@toth.hq.ferg.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:17:46 -0500 From: Branson Matheson To: nash@mcs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Runnig FIND Reply-To: Branson.Matheson@FergInc.com References: <19971119152813.45925@toth.hq.ferg.com> <199711192202.QAA05938@zen.nash.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199711192202.QAA05938@zen.nash.org>; from nash@mcs.net on Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 04:02:46PM -0600 Organization: Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 04:02:46PM -0600, nash@mcs.net wrote: > On 19 Nov, Branson Matheson wrote: > > Everynight at the same time there is a cronjob that is probably > > running it.. to find an idea of who/what/how/and why .. try reading > > the manpage on crontab and running as root 'crontab -l' to see what > > it is. > > /etc/daily & friends are executed out of /etc/crontab. Typing 'crontab > -l' as root will produce 'crontab: no crontab for root'. Your right. I forgot about that little gem. That is a pain in the tuckus. Could make for alot of headaches when searching for somthing like this. Grrrr. Is there a reason for crontab -l *not* showing /etc/crontab? - branson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Branson Matheson " If you are falling off of a mountain, Unix System Administrator You may as well try to fly." Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. - Delenn, Mimbari Ambassador ( $statements = ) !~ /Corporate Opinion/;