On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:01:47PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > albi writes: > > a> check the /etc/periodic/ dir > > I've seen it. But where does it run from? Supposedly you're not > supposed to modify crontab files directly, but where do these jobs > belong if crontab -l from root won't list them. Is there some sort of > "system" crontab in addition to those for root and other users, or how > does it work?
/etc/crontab is indeed the "system" crontab. You can safely edit this one by hand. The following three lines are the ones you're interested in: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly Note the additional field, before the command is named. It determines which user the command runs as. See crontab(5) for more details. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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