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Subject: Re: about cron (newbie question)
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 15:15:54 -0400 (EDT)
Peng Zhang <pzhang@hsph.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I don't know what is wrong with the cron on my computer. I am running
> freebsd 4.8 stable. The /etc/crontab file in my computer is:

/etc/crontab are system crontab, not user's ones.

you needn't crontab executable to set them up.
just edit the file.

> Then I typed command "crontab /etc/crontab". However I received the
> following mail:

flush your root user crontab

regard,

clem