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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!uriela.in-berlin.de!bolzen.in-berlin.de!sirene.in-berlin.de!usenet From: "Nora E. Etukudo" <nora@sirene.IN-Berlin.DE> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: cron on 2.1 Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 13:30:03 +0200 Organization: Frauen-Computer-Netzwerk WOMAN Lines: 17 Message-ID: <319DB4BB.38939342@sirene.IN-Berlin.DE> References: <4njsvp$5ne@falstaf.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: amazone.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.3.57 i486) Robin Birch wrote: > > Dear All, > I am playing with the cron system and puting things in to do daily cleanups > and contacts to the internet. My log is telling me that /etc/daily and > /etc/weekly are being invoked despite them not being in the crontab for root. > > Are these built into cron by default?. If so how can I modify them?. No. There's also an /etc/crontab with a sligthly different format. Cron looks for both, the latter one and the ones in /var/cron/tabs. Liebe Gruesse, Nora. -- | nora@sirene.IN-Berlin.DE | SIRENE, Frauen-Computer-Netzwerk WOMAN | | http://sirene.IN-Berlin.DE | Women Only Mail And News | | http://www.woman.de | +4930 8932911, 14400-V42bis (24h) |