Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:39:08 +0200 From: Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Rudi Opperman <rudi@askas.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with cron and crontab mail messages Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990423103908.00ab1a20@relay.alice.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904221150310.7869-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu > References: <3.0.5.32.19990422131025.00a47eb0@relay.alice.it>
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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
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