Aha! I just checked my system and now I understand the confusion (you didn't even know there was confusion). My version of linux has both cron and anacron installed. What you say is true for anacron, what I say is true for cron. For a long time, I couldn't figure out why my changes to cron using crontab -e were being "ignored." Turns out, of course, they weren't. anacron was running the same things as cron was. Using webmin showed me both running. I closed anacron and problems went away!
Mark On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 17 January 2003 05:21 am, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Check the man page. the -u <username> will do another user's crontab. > > If you edit one of the crontab files directly, it won't update cron. > > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jianping Zhu wrote: > > > Thank you for response > > > i found we i use crontab -e, the file /var/spool/corn/root not > > > /etc/crontab is changed. how can i change /etc/crontab? > > You must edit /etc/crontab manually. It is not the same as a users > crontab, and the format is slightly different as well. > > - -- > - -Michael > > pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt > Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+J/R6n/07WoAb/SsRAqlgAJwK3kT2idcOxpV9dL9GTm3Y10iTJgCfTAsD > ajjwkwDVgrk4xbHP99B0c8M= > =rGzr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
