Re: Crontab @reboot directive

2008-04-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:03:41PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > andrew clarke writes: > > > > > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120 > > > > > > Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than > > > starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file

Re: Crontab @reboot directive

2008-04-22 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-04-22 17:03:41 UTC-0400, Robert Huff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120 > > > > > > Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than > > > starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file? > > > > Si

Re: Crontab @reboot directive

2008-04-22 Thread Robert Huff
andrew clarke writes: > > > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120 > > > > Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than > > starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file? > > Since I have root access on that machine, yes I could do that. But

Re: Crontab @reboot directive

2008-04-22 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-04-22 16:34:56 UTC-0400, Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120 > > Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than > starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file? Since I have root access on that mach

Re: Crontab @reboot directive

2008-04-22 Thread Gerard
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:18:26 +1000 andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue 2008-04-22 12:34:12 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > If I want to start a program at every system reboot and the program > > should not be started by root, is it enough for me to edit

Re: Crontab @reboot directive

2008-04-22 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-04-22 12:34:12 UTC+0200, Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I want to start a program at every system reboot and the program should > not be started by root, is it enough for me to edit a users crontab with > the following directive? > > @reboot /path/to/file.sh Yes. T

Crontab @reboot directive

2008-04-22 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, If I want to start a program at every system reboot and the program should not be started by root, is it enough for me to edit a users crontab with the following directive? @reboot /path/to/file.sh Many thanks! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-qu