LeRoy D. Cressy on Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:52:23 -0400 (EDT)


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


This is from the top of the Debian /etc/crontab file.



# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file.
# This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do.

The user field is right after periodic schedule fields like:
# min hour dom mon dow user  command
25 1    * * *   root    test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts \ --report
/etc/cron.daily

As you can see the only difference is the user field in this file.

Have a good day 

tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:
> 
> 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?

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