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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!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.seanet.com!news 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 Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Lines: 30 Message-ID: <32AA60CC.ABD322C@seanet.com> References: <01bd0369$f331d2a0$667d1bcc@rodia> <32AA03CE.FF6D5DF@seanet.com> <01bd038c$5a5e82d0$667d1bcc@rodia> NNTP-Posting-Host: dennisg.seanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) 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