On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:25:31PM +0100, Ina&Frank wrote: >Thanx for your explaination. I read the man 5 cron manpage (I ran man 5 >cron) and understood that you have to use (better to do so) the -u option. > >My problem was that I want to 'load' and 'unload' a firewall rule >periodically. iptables runs (kernel 2.4.18) under root, so I had to edit >crontab for root.
While I said "user", in this context I don't think there is any difference between root and a regular user. I just used crontab -e as root, and crontab -eu to edit a user's crontab, both no prob. Yes, if you're modifying iptable rules, you need root to do that but I don't think it matters if you edit /etc/crontab or use crontab -e as root. I guess I don't understand the problem you had... what was the url of the solution? Well documentation is usually the last item to come of age, but I have yet to see a Linux distro with better documentation. Though just yesterday when I was compiling mplayer source, I got stuck it said I needed GTK first. Any idea how many gtk debs there are? A lot, but the easy answer was on a web site http://eimbox.org/~eim/stuff/development/debdev/mplayer/ Cheers, // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
