| Stephen Gran on 31 Aug 2006 17:27:01 -0000 |
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:21:56AM -0700, Marc Zucchelli said: > I am running debian 3.1 sarge. When I run crontab -e > as root, it displays the system wide crontab file that > has the username column and the run-parts commands, > the one that is in /etc/crontab. > > When I added a line to the file in crontab -e, I added > a username column because the rest of the lines had a > username column. It didnt work until I removed the > username column. Next, I edited /etc/crontab > directly, and it didnt have the lines I added while in > crontab -e, and it would only work while editing > /etc/crontab directly if I used a username column. > > Later, I found out that root has a separate file in: > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > and that is the file I was editing with crontab -e, no > wonder the username column didnt work. > > My question is, why are there all those run-parts, and > cron.daily lines, WITH a username column in: > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > when they are already in /etc/crontab where the > username field actually works. > > My other question is, can I remove these lines from: > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root The lines from the run-parts cron jobs should not be in root's crontab. Something has gone slightly screwy on your system. What cron are you using? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Better to use medicines at the outset | | steve@lobefin.net | than at the last moment. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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