Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 12:57:41 -0400 From: "Harry Patterson" <harry@visiontm.com> To: <sfarrell+list@farrell.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: crontab problems Message-ID: <01bd60b3$f22a1aa0$f46190cf@hp.harry.com>
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Steve, Thanks for your help. The system crontab is working fine with no error messages. Not to beat a dead horse but what I wanted to clarify for any others that are reading these is: For the system crontab (using your numbering): [1] DO NOT crontab crontab from root to activate the system crontab. This will only activate a crontab for the root user not the system crontab. [2] edit /etc/crontab and restart the cron process (ie. kill -1 PID). /etc/crontab is the system crontab and loads when cron is started. If I'm wrong please correct me, otherwise thanks again. Sincerely, Harry Patterson <mailto:harry@visiontm.com> Steve Farrell wrote: >I've numbered two of your statements as [1] and [2]. They appear to >contradict each other (or else I don't understand what you're saying). >I believe that [2] is the actual behavior... I don't see it in the >docs, so I suppose experimentation is the only way to find out... >> I had read the line you list below in man 5 crontab concerning the >> system crontab. What is hidden well is that you don't have to do >> anything (ie. crontab crontab) to activate the system crontab. [1] >> I assume it is automatically checked every minute. This is where my >> problems began by performing a root level crontab crontab thinking >> this is the way to update the system crontab. Did I miss something >> in the man pages that explains how the system crontab is loaded and >> am I correct that the procedure is to [2] edit /etc/crontab and >> restart the cron daemon? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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