From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 1:21:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3831537B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (mx1.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8D543E42 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (sams [134.2.12.50]) by mx1.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8EBD4AF; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:49:06 +0200 (MST) Received: from sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6B7n6eh027820; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:49:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sperber@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: (from sperber@localhost) by sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6B7n1og027817; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:49:01 +0200 (CEST) To: Thomas Seck Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE? References: <20020708152752.X84324-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> <3D2AE910.BF80794A@mitre.org> <20020709161746.GA444@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <200207091651.g69Gp3Lg052679@apollo.backplane.com> <20020709204417.GA778@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <20020710160832.GA996@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:49:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020710160832.GA996@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> (Thomas Seck's message of "Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:08:32 +0200") Message-ID: Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.5 (bok choi, i386-unknown-freebsd4.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Seck writes: Thomas> * Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de): >> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Seck writes: >> Thomas> "[...] Cron also searches /etc/crontab...". Thomas> Thomas> The original poster obviously did not bother to read this document. Thomas> Failing to read documentation and posting false claims on a public Thomas> mailing list is a behaviour that drives me up the wall. >> >> That would be me, I guess. I never claimed there's no /etc/crontab >> file. I claimed there's no root crontab which, as some posters have >> noted, is something different. Thomas> Uh, oh. My mind thought of "the posting I originally replied to". Thomas> What my hands made of it is what was finally sent out. Sorry. No problem! >> On the 4.3 systems I have around here, there's a root crontab starting >> like this: >> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. >> # (/tmp/adcrcln339/crontab installed on Mon Jun 11 20:53:28 2001) >> # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v 1.12.2.2 2000/12/11 01:03:31 obrien Exp $) >> >> It's no big deal. I was just wondering where that came from and why >> I'm no longer seeing it. Thomas> I get your meaning. According to cvs, the behaviour of 'crontab -u root' Thomas> was changed in version 1.12.2.3 of crontab.c, committed 2001/05/03 to Thomas> RELENG_4. ... and here, finally, is the answer to my question. I never thought of looking at the history of crontab.c. Many thanks! -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message