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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
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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