On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:58:14 -0500, Robert wrote:
> > My /etc/crontab
> > file certainly seems to have a user field:
> >
> > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> > 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> > 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cr
On 11/18/2010 10:30 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:05:08 -0500
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
>> OK. But what about:
>> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/courses/2004-February/001389.html
>> which is old, but says that there is a user field in the /etc/crontab
>> version? I
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:05:08 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> OK. But what about:
> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/courses/2004-February/001389.html
> which is old, but says that there is a user field in the /etc/crontab
> version? Is there?
The crontab(5) man page says there is (if you
On 11/18/2010 09:49 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:35:16 -0500
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
>> Then why is it still there, leading one to think they can edit it for
>> global cron jobs?
>>
> You can edit it for global cron jobs (or you can drop files
> in the /etc/cron.d
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:35:16 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Then why is it still there, leading one to think they can edit it for
> global cron jobs?
You can edit it for global cron jobs (or you can drop files
in the /etc/cron.d/ directory). In fact I do edit it: I move
everything out of the /e
On 10/09/2010 03:25 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 10/09/2010 12:37 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>
>> Before (fedora 10) the default file /etc/crontab was not empty.
>> On my new fedora13 it is just almost empty.
>> So I guess that the cron files are never run and there is probably a
>> tool to man
