Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 07:17:38 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, "Andrew N. Edmond" <edmond@UWYO.EDU>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CRON: it loves me Message-ID: <9384.832745858@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 May 1996 18:08:40 PDT." <Pine.SV4.3.91.960521180508.7873B-100000@cedb>
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Dan Busarow wrote in message ID <Pine.SV4.3.91.960521180508.7873B-100000@cedb>: > On Tue, 21 May 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > Look into /var/cron/crontabs. If you have a file named root, "rm" it. The > > root crontab is only in /etc/crontab. > > My root file in /var/cron/tabs works fine, and so does /etc/crontabs. > > I'm used to running crontab -e and it doesn't seem to hurt anything, even > if you are root. On 2.1R Yes, but the original posters problem was that he used crontab -e and then loaded in /etc/crontab to it ... /etc/crontab is a different format, and should not go into /var/cron/tabs Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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