From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 13:09:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7711016A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ws1.cnweb.com (ws1.cnweb.com [207.91.1.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62FE043F85 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:09:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darryl@osborne-ind.com) Received: (qmail 13276 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2003 21:09:24 -0000 Received: from p189n31.ruraltel.net (HELO darryl) (24.225.31.189) by spkg.com with SMTP; 12 Nov 2003 21:09:24 -0000 From: "Darryl Hoar" To: Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:13:34 -0600 Message-ID: <00a601c3a961$d5c364a0$0701a8c0@darryl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 Importance: Normal Subject: crontab X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: darryl@osborne-ind.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:09:26 -0000 Greetings, I am running 4.7 and want to use cron to run a command. when I look in /var/cron/tabs, there is not a file for root. If I do a crontab -e its blank. I thought there was a template already, with example commented out. Do I have to create this file from scratch ? thanks, -D