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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:37:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kalai Kalaiarasi <kalaiarasi@yahoo.com>
To:        Dan O'Connor <dan@mostgraveconcern.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crontab for root
Message-ID:  <20010224043757.14732.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com>
In-Reply-To: <00b101c09e10$f00fb340$029b140a@danco>

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Dear Sir,

I edit crontab using the command 'crontab -e'...just
like how i set crontab as normal user. What else shall
i look into when setting crontab as root??? You have
any idea?

Regards,
Kalai

--- Dan O'Connor <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> wrote:
> >Does anyone knows how to set crontab for root? I am
> >able to set the crontab for normal user and it's
> >working fine. When i try set crontab for root, the
> >shell script doesnt seem to run. Is there anything
> >else i need to do?? Please do help me....
> 
> 
> Root's crontab file is /etc/crontab
> 
> The format is slightly different than a user crontab
> file.
> 
> --Dan
> 
> --
> Dan O'Connor
> On Matters of Most Grave Concern
>     http://www.mostgraveconcern.com
> FreeBSD Cheat Sheets
>     http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/
> 
> 


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