Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:28:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Branson Matheson <Branson.Matheson@FergInc.com> Cc: nash@mcs.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Runnig FIND Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971119172638.3811L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971119171746.42578@toth.hq.ferg.com>
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Branson Matheson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 04:02:46PM -0600, nash@mcs.net wrote: > > On 19 Nov, Branson Matheson wrote: > > > Everynight at the same time there is a cronjob that is probably > > > running it.. to find an idea of who/what/how/and why .. try reading > > > the manpage on crontab and running as root 'crontab -l' to see what > > > it is. > > > > /etc/daily & friends are executed out of /etc/crontab. Typing 'crontab > > -l' as root will produce 'crontab: no crontab for root'. > > Your right. I forgot about that little gem. That is a pain in the > tuckus. Could make for alot of headaches when searching for somthing > like this. Grrrr. Is there a reason for crontab -l *not* showing > /etc/crontab? Historical, probably. /etc/crontab is for systemwide maintenance processes, root's crontab would imply that those processes run for the root user's own business. I.e. atrun runs out of cron since it's a system thing, but a status monitor could run out of root's crontab. If you have root access though, why bother with the crontab(1) interface when you can just edit /etc/crontab directly? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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