From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 10:54:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7B337B405 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:54:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f5OHsSn10945; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:54:28 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Bill Moran Cc: tyler spivey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron Message-ID: <20010624105428.A10471@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <200106231048.f5NAmUm04695@home.com> <3B34AF93.B274127E@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B34AF93.B274127E@iowna.com>; from wmoran@iowna.com on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:02:44AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:02:44AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > root's crontab is /etc/crontab. You can edit it with any text editor. That's not root's crontab; it's the system crontab. It differs from all of the other crontabs by having an extra field for the user to run the command as: #minute hour mday month wday who command ^^^ root's personal crontab works just like every other user's, and is edited using "crontab -e" as root. -- Matthew Hunt * Inertia is a property http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message