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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:02:22 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        Jeff Lynch <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com>
Cc:        freebsd <isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Runnig FIND
Message-ID:  <19971120120222.01670@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971120100016.4336A-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>; from Jeff Lynch on Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 10:05:36AM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971119214209.11187C-100000@homer.duff-beer.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971120100016.4336A-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>

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Jeff Lynch scribbled this message on Nov 20:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Scot Elliott wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Marcin Pasek wrote:
> > Take a look at /etc/crontab is you want to change the times or stop this
> > happening.
> 
> Anyone know why "crontab -l" and "crontab -e" look in /var/cron/tabs
> but the default root crontab is in /etc/crontab? IMHO, it would be nicer
> to have these files merged into one and default to /var/cron/tabs/root.

because /etc/crontab ISN'T root's default cron tab.. it has a different
format that allows you to specify which user runs the command...

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