Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:43:58 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901031442350.476-100000@smarter.than.nu> In-Reply-To: <199901032233.RAA01244@istari.home.net>
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On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote:
> In tracking down the cause of my "/var/log/maillog.0: No such file
> or directory" errors from newsyslog, I "discovered" that I had both
> a root crontab entry and /etc/crontab. Both of these were running
> newsyslog at the same time and they were conflicting with each
> other.
>
> My question is why is root's crontab entry treated differently (i.e.
> a file in /etc) as opposed to just having a crontab (in /var/cron/tabs)?
/etc/crontab allows you to specify the user who commands should be run as
--
Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu
brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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