Date: 05 Apr 1998 09:25:55 -0500 From: sfarrell+list@farrell.org To: "Harry Patterson" <harry@visiontm.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: crontab problems Message-ID: <87zpi02vm4.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: "Harry Patterson"'s message of "Sun, 5 Apr 1998 10:15:05 -0400" References: <01bd609d$3b380160$f46190cf@hp.harry.com>
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"Harry Patterson" <harry@visiontm.com> writes: > I've read and re-read the man pages and can't find the distinction between > root's crontab and /etc/crontab (user level differences are obvious with the > user field removed) . I assumed that the only way to change the "system" > crontab was to edit it as root and perform a "crontab crontab" as root. Is > there a different way? How does the system crontab take effect and how do > you change it? kill -HUP the cron daemon to get it to reread /etc/crontab. Well, it's kind of well hidden (i.e., amazingly poorly worded) in man 5 crontab: The format of a cron command is very much the V7 standard, with a number of upward-compatible extensions. Each line has five time and date fields, followed by a user name (with optional ``:<group>'' and ``/<lo- gin-class>'' suffixes) if this is the system crontab file, followed by a command. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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