Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:08:32 +0200 From: Thomas Seck <tmseck-lists@netcologne.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE? Message-ID: <20020710160832.GA996@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <y9l4rf8hwwa.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <20020708152752.X84324-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> <3D2AE910.BF80794A@mitre.org> <20020709161746.GA444@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <200207091651.g69Gp3Lg052679@apollo.backplane.com> <20020709204417.GA778@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <y9l4rf8hwwa.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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* Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de): > >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Seck <tmseck-lists@netcologne.de> writes: > > Thomas> "[...] Cron also searches /etc/crontab...". > Thomas> > Thomas> The original poster obviously did not bother to read this document. > Thomas> Failing to read documentation and posting false claims on a public > Thomas> mailing list is a behaviour that drives me up the wall. > > That would be me, I guess. I never claimed there's no /etc/crontab > file. I claimed there's no root crontab which, as some posters have > noted, is something different. Uh, oh. My mind thought of "the posting I originally replied to". What my hands made of it is what was finally sent out. Sorry. > On the 4.3 systems I have around here, there's a root crontab starting > like this: > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/adcrcln339/crontab installed on Mon Jun 11 20:53:28 2001) > # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v 1.12.2.2 2000/12/11 01:03:31 obrien Exp $) > > It's no big deal. I was just wondering where that came from and why > I'm no longer seeing it. I get your meaning. According to cvs, the behaviour of 'crontab -u root' was changed in version 1.12.2.3 of crontab.c, committed 2001/05/03 to RELENG_4. -- Thomas Seck This message was sent to a mailinglist I am subscribed to. Please send your replies to the list - and do *not* CC me. Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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