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From: dennisg <dennisg@seanet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: who runs daily - weekly - monthly ?
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 22:31:40 -0800
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To: Raul Zighelboim <"mango"@communique.,net>

Raul Zighelboim wrote:
> 
> not my root crontab:
> 
> kiyoko:/usr/news/spool/over.view# crontab -l
> no crontab for root
> 
> that is what confuses me ...
> 
> > >
> > > Can't figure out who runs it, as there is no cron entry for any of
> them.
> > >
> > > So, the subject.
> >
> >
> > # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
> > #
> > #minute hour    mday    month   wday    who     command
> > 30      3       *       *       6       root    /etc/weekly 2>&1 |
> > sendmail roo> #
> > */5     *       *       *       *       root    /usr/libexec/atrun
> > #
It still runs as root although all FreeBSD systems give that result, it
is the systems crontab per say and not user root, although it does run
as root as per the who field, root doesn't have a crontab the system
does. and the systems crontab runs as root. (I am not sure I am being
clear)

dennisg