On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > Franck Joncourt wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > > >>I see tasks from directories /etc/cron.* are ran regulary, but when I > >>run "crontab -e" as root, the file is empty. Where are these tasks > >>schedualed? I am asking because I want to know at what time of the day > >>are tasks from cron.daily ran and how to change it. > >> > > > >If I am not mistaken crontab -e edits root's crontab, however, according > >to me, you are looking for /etc/crontab, aren't you ? > > > > > I thaught root's crontab is /etc/crontab. Thanks. Which command then to > run to edit this file (sometime ago I read it is not recommended to edit > it directly)? >
Looking at /etc/crontab you can see when cron.hourly and its friends start. I think if you want to add some tasks for the root user, you can add them to /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.hourly ... according to your needs. I would do this way. -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C0 89FE
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