Hi,
I am not eactly shure what you mean. First off my file is
/etc/crontab that is the one that runs the system. I need to set it up so
that the user can edit his own file when he needs to change something.
I tried to copy the above file to /var/spool/cron/user I then
chown users:user /var/spool/cron/user and then su into the user and tried
to edit the file and it said permission denied.
I guess my question is where do I copy the file to and how do I
make my system cron know the file is there and run what ever is needs to
run in the users cron file?
Thanks
Bob
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Rick McKinney wrote:
> goto where the root cron file is copy that file to a username file
>
> cp root userx
> then edit the userx file as needed ....
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 7:23 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] howto setup crontab for users
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have been reading the man pages and looking around the web but I
> > still can not figure out how to do this exactly.
> > I tired crontab -u users filename and tells me it does not exist.
> > Where do I create the crontab file for the user and how do I tell
> > cron that the file is for that user? I read something about
> > /var/spool/cron/user but how do you create this to begin with?
> >
> > Any help on setting this up would be great. All by the way it is a trusted
> > user I am trying to setup.
> > Mandrake 5.3 linux kernel 2.2.3
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
> >
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