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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!rtd.com!dgy From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: who runs daily - weekly - monthly ? Date: 8 Dec 1996 16:46:40 GMT Organization: CICDO Lines: 23 Message-ID: <58erdg$djs@baygull.rtd.com> References: <01bd0369$f331d2a0$667d1bcc@rodia> <32AA03CE.FF6D5DF@seanet.com> <01bd038c$5a5e82d0$667d1bcc@rodia> <32AA60CC.ABD322C@seanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com In article <32AA60CC.ABD322C@seanet.com>, dennisg <dennisg@seanet.com> wrote: >Raul Zighelboim wrote: >> >> not my root crontab: >> >> kiyoko:/usr/news/spool/over.view# crontab -l >> no crontab for root >> >> that is what confuses me ... >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) There are two different crontabs. /etc/crontab which is maintained for the system as a whole. /var/cron/tabs/* which are "per user" crontabs (assuming they have been 'allow'ed to use crontab(1)). The reasons behind this can start a religious war... --don