On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Gerard Seibert wrote:
I am not sure how to go about this. If I do not want to touch the system
CRON, is it possible to create a personal CRON that could run two
programs, both at the super user level"
Example:
I want to update the ports tree and then run portmanager to install the
updates. These obviously have to be run as root. Is there a way I can
force this to happen without actually leaving the system logged in as
root?
Sure... as root, type "crontab -e" and put in your entries according to
the crontab format. This will store the entries in root's personal cron
file. Not /etc/crontab...
Save the file.
Logout.
I find it helpful to paste this at the top of my crontab files to help me
remember the format...
##################################################
#
# field allowed values
# ----- --------------
# minute 0-59
# hour 0-23
# day of month 1-31
# month 1-12 (or names, see below)
# day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)
# command /path/to/cmd arg1 arg2
#
##################################################
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