On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David Henderson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Is the system-wide /etc/crontab file supported by Busyboxes cron daemon
No, it is not supported.
> or
> is it completely on a per user basis? For example, I created a cron job for
> the root user:
>
> * * * * * date >> /tmp/cron.txt
>
> then ran "crontab -u root /etc/cron.d/test". Everything works fine at this
> point. Now I tried to test the system-wide /etc/crontab file:
>
> * * * * * date >> /tmp/cron.txt2
>
> I let it sit there for 10-15 minutes and no new file appeared in the /tmp
> directory so I decided to "crontab /etc/crontab" which ended up overwriting
> the one already set for the root account. Is this normal behavior or am I
> missing a step somewhere?
It did exactly what --help says:
$ busybox crontab --help
BusyBox v1.19.0.git (2011-01-18 13:36:16 CET) multi-call binary.
Usage: crontab [-c DIR] [-u USER] [-ler]|[FILE]
-c Crontab directory
-u User
-l List crontab
-e Edit crontab
-r Delete crontab
FILE Replace crontab by FILE ('-': stdin)
that is, it copied FILE (=/etc/crontab here) into crontab for current user.
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vda
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