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Date:      Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:34:40 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crontab doesn't work
Message-ID:  <200603250234.41337.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <44246A23.70905@daleco.biz>
References:  <44245730.9030509@sensorsistemas.com.br> <44246A23.70905@daleco.biz>

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On Friday 24 March 2006 21:52, Kevin Kinsey wrote:

> 3.  Reasoning:  It appears that you have modified /etc/crontab.
> In BSD-land, you usually want to use the "root" crontab (which
> is under /var/cron/tabs/root) or your personal account
> crontab (/var/cron/tabs/username) to do cron work.

What's wrong with the system crontab? 

One of the entries runs as squid, so it seems sensible to do it the way he has 
done it.



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