Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 16:25:16 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron question Message-ID: <200604061625.17909.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <44331031.1020002@daleco.biz> References: <b2e814f30604041603i3149fdfene6d7c4c6ec58cf21@mail.gmail.com> <443301F8.50106@mac.com> <44331031.1020002@daleco.biz>
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On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:32, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > And furthermore, you edited /etc/crontab or something similar > instead of using crontab(1) to edit /var/cron/tabs/root. Nitpicky, > to be sure, but the cause of many a heartache: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRO >RS The FAQ entry is about the mistake of using the crontab utility to install the system crontab (or a copy) as root's user crontab ( This is not helped by the fact that /etc/crontab refers to itself as "root's crontab" ). There is no such problem with simply editing /etc/crontab - it's the more straightforward approach.
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