From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 3 15:01:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18729 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:01:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cserv.oksys.bg (ppp3.bulinfo.net [195.10.36.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18717 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ian@bulinfo.net) Received: from bulinfo.net (cserv.oksys.bg [192.72.180.21]) by cserv.oksys.bg (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21869 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 01:00:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ian@bulinfo.net) Message-ID: <368FF691.B2B7B3D8@bulinfo.net> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 01:00:33 +0200 From: Yani Brankov Organization: ok systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: bg, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? References: <199901032233.RAA01244@istari.home.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: > > 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)? > /var/cron/tabs/root contains the root user crontab settings and /var/crontab contains system crontab settings. it's for convenience I think. iani -- When the people talk about computers, the word Microsoft is the most frequently used one. Guess why? :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message