Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 15:30:16 UTC 2010


On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:05:08 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> 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?

The crontab(5) man page says there is (if you read it 5 or six
times to decrypt the convoluted description :-). My /etc/crontab
file certainly seems to have a user field:

01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly


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