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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!falstaf.demon.co.uk!falstaf.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: cron on 2.1 Date: 18 May 1996 16:19:06 +0100 Organization: Ruff'n Ready Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4nkppa$7h5@falstaf.demon.co.uk> References: <4njsvp$5ne@falstaf.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: falstaf.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Robin Birch (robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk) 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?. Dear All, Thankyou for the replies pointing out the existance of /etc/crontab. The world is a lot more understandable now. Cheers Robin Birch