On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:32, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > And furthermore, you edited /etc/crontab or something similar > instead of using crontab(1) to edit /var/cron/tabs/root. Nitpicky, > to be sure, but the cause of many a heartache: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRO >RS
The FAQ entry is about the mistake of using the crontab utility to install the system crontab (or a copy) as root's user crontab ( This is not helped by the fact that /etc/crontab refers to itself as "root's crontab" ). There is no such problem with simply editing /etc/crontab - it's the more straightforward approach. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
