Daniel Bye wrote:
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
As well as periodic(8), which is an excellent exposition on the subject (if you read manpages at all ... it's real nice compared to some :-)
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