Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Nov 18 15:05:08 UTC 2010
On 11/18/2010 09:49 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:35:16 -0500
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
>> Then why is it still there, leading one to think they can edit it for
>> global cron jobs?
>>
> You can edit it for global cron jobs (or you can drop files
> in the /etc/cron.d/ directory). In fact I do edit it: I move
> everything out of the /etc/anacrontab file and back into
> /etc/crontab where it will run at a known time rather than
> a random time (or course, I have to change the syntax and
> say what time I want it to run).
>
OK. But what about:
http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/courses/2004-February/001389.html
which is old, but says that there is a user field in the /etc/crontab
version? Is there?
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