Re: [Plug] docs on /etc/crontab?

[tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com]

Thank goodness... I'm not insane! Now, if we can only find the /etc/crontab
format documentation...




mortis@voicenet.com on 10/21/99 11:00:59 AM

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This thing?
[mortis@warhammer mortis]$ rpm -qf /etc/crontab
crontabs-1.7-6
[mortis@warhammer mortis]$ rpm -qi crontabs
Name        : crontabs                     Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 1.7                               Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release     : 6                             Build Date: Thu Apr 15 10:00:31
1999
Install date: Tue May 18 09:47:55 1999      Build Host:
porky.devel.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM:
crontabs-1.7-6.src.rpm
Size        : 4856                             License: public domain
Packager    : Red Hat Software <http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary     : Root crontab files used to schedule the execution of
programs.
Description :
The crontabs package contains root crontab files.  Crontab is the
program used to install, uninstall or list the tables used to drive the
cron daemon.  The cron daemon checks the crontab files to see when
particular commands are scheduled to be executed.  If commands are
scheduled, it executes them.
Crontabs handles a basic system function, so it should be installed on
your system.
[mortis@warhammer mortis]$
Best I can do is inferr from it that it's differnet from vixie-cron...
I don't see docs in my /usr/doc directory for crontabs...
[mortis@warhammer mortis]$ rpm -ql crontabs
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.hourly
/etc/cron.monthly
/etc/cron.weekly
/etc/crontab
/usr/bin/run-parts
that run-parts thing is a shell script.  I dont' know for sure, but it
looks like the foramt of /etc/crontab is kinda like a normal users's
cron file, except it specifies a user to run the cmd as...
just a guess...
k

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On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:
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> The entry:
>      0 3 * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s hostname
> does nothing in /etc/crontab, but works fine in root's crontab. I've
> noticed that /etc/crontab has this entry:
>      01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> To quote the man page, "The 'sixth' field (the rest of the line)
specifies
> the command to be run". By inference, the field "root run-parts
> /etc/cron.hourly" is a shell command. How can both these formats be the
> same?
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> mental@NeverLight.com on 10/21/99 09:59:54 AM
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> It has the same exact format. Check out "man 5 crontab" and read up
> on all the settings you can use.
> What was it you were wondering about?
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> Mental
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> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:
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> > The man pages don't seem to explain about /etc/crontab which looks to
> have
> > a slightly different format than a normal crontab file. Normal crontab
> > formatted stuff doesn't seem to work here. Can anyone shed light on
this?
> > TAMIA
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