>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Seck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> * Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Seck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Thomas> "[...] Cron also searches /etc/crontab...". Thomas> Thomas> The original poster obviously did not bother to read this document. Thomas> Failing to read documentation and posting false claims on a public Thomas> mailing list is a behaviour that drives me up the wall. >> >> That would be me, I guess. I never claimed there's no /etc/crontab >> file. I claimed there's no root crontab which, as some posters have >> noted, is something different. Thomas> Uh, oh. My mind thought of "the posting I originally replied to". Thomas> What my hands made of it is what was finally sent out. Sorry. No problem! >> On the 4.3 systems I have around here, there's a root crontab starting >> like this: >> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. >> # (/tmp/adcrcln339/crontab installed on Mon Jun 11 20:53:28 2001) >> # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v 1.12.2.2 >2000/12/11 01:03:31 obrien Exp $) >> >> It's no big deal. I was just wondering where that came from and why >> I'm no longer seeing it. Thomas> I get your meaning. According to cvs, the behaviour of 'crontab -u root' Thomas> was changed in version 1.12.2.3 of crontab.c, committed 2001/05/03 to Thomas> RELENG_4. ... and here, finally, is the answer to my question. I never thought of looking at the history of crontab.c. Many thanks! -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
