Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 18:13:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net> To: ian@bulinfo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is root's crontab different? Message-ID: <199901032313.SAA04829@istari.home.net> In-Reply-To: Mail from 'Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>' dated: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 01:00:33 %2B0200
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> 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?] Thanks, -SR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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