From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 04:48:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA02591 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 04:48:25 -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 EAA02586 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 04:48:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from branson@toth.ferginc.com) Received: (from branson@localhost) by toth.ferginc.com (You_Can/Keep_Guessing) id HAA19373; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:47:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19971120074714.47475@toth.hq.ferg.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:47:14 -0500 From: Branson Matheson To: Doug White Cc: nash@mcs.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Runnig FIND Reply-To: Branson.Matheson@FergInc.com References: <19971119171746.42578@toth.hq.ferg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 05:28:17PM -0800 Organization: Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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? > > Historical, probably. /etc/crontab is for systemwide maintenance > processes, root's crontab would imply that those processes run for the > root user's own business. I.e. atrun runs out of cron since it's a > system thing, but a status monitor could run out of root's crontab. > > If you have root access though, why bother with the crontab(1) interface > when you can just edit /etc/crontab directly? Hmm.. Consistancy comes to mind as a good reason. It is the inconsistancy of having two places that i am concerned about. General users, meaning users that also have root, ( including myself as I forgot ) could have a problem finding things that they put in one place and not another. Possible suggestion.. when root does a crontab -[le], could it check for the existance of /etc/crontab and give you the choice of editing it or the regular 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/;