Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 01:29:06 +0200 From: Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net> To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? Message-ID: <368FFD42.F849603C@bulinfo.net> References: <199901032313.SAA04829@istari.home.net>
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"Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: > > > From: Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net> > > > > "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. > > [Not trying to be argumentative....] > > In the case of the "default" files, what is the difference? > /usr/src/etc/crontab only contains entries for root, no other users. > [Isn't root synonymous with "system crontab settings" in this case?] > In this case - yes, but you may add entries for any user there. /etc/crontab duplicates the role of the user crontabs, but anyway I think it's more convenient to have all the necessary system crontab entries in one file. -- 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
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