Subject: Re: do cron task as root
To: Water NB <netbsd78@126.com>
From: Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/20/2006 11:42:44
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As root (or as any user) you should use crontab -e to Edit your crontab.

Then all is done for you properly.

The crontab files are in /var/cron/tabs one per user. The file has the 
name of the username... so "root" for root.

The /etc/{daily,weekly,...} files can also be used, but they occur only 
at daily, weekly and monthly times (scheduled, actually, in cron). You 
should create/edit the *.local version of these files and leave the 
original versions as is.

Gilles.

Water NB wrote:
> As a non-root account, I know how to do cron task.
> write a crontab file and call crontab program.
>
> But for root:
> Where is this crontab file?
> i.e. Where /etc/{daily,weekly,...} are called?
>
> thanks.
>
> (NetBSD 3.0_STABLE i386)
>   


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