From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 1:41:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE5C14BCC for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01471; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:39:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA02162; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:39:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990423103908.00ab1a20@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:39:08 +0200 To: Doug White From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: help with cron and crontab mail messages Cc: Rudi Opperman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.19990422131025.00a47eb0@relay.alice.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11.50 22/04/99 -0700, you wrote: >> If you want to put your jobs in /etc/crontab, then *DON'T* "bring them >> up"! Simply open /etc/crontab, add your jobs, save the file and cron will >> run them automagically. Just in case you have to clean the root user's >> crontab after past trials, use "crontab -r". >> If you want to use users' crontabs, the syntax is different, so *DON'T* >> put "root" or any other user in the lines describing your jobs; that column >> doesn't exist in users' crontabs, because the jobs are always run as the >> owner of that crontab. >Don't forget to kill -HUP cron. This isn't strictly required. The only thing that cron does receiving a SIGHUP is closing and re-opening its log file. --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message