Anyway, crontabs should only be use via the crontab command. use: crontab -l to view your crontab crontab -e to edit your crontab (does work for every user on my redhat 4.2) cronatb -r to remove your crontab -----Message d'origine----- De: Bogdan Taru [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: vendredi 11 septembre 1998 09:58 �: linux-newbie Objet: crond Nevermind, I got a solution to my problem. I've done everything below in X, and if I just closed the terminal window I was working in, and restarted X everything was OK.... Hi all, I made a script which I want to execute everyday at 23:00. But it seemed a chalenge to me to make it execute as a simple user, not root. So I created a file 'bgd' (--> my user name) in '/var/spool/cron/crontab', with the appropiate line in it... I did that as root, because otherwise I would not have the right to read (nor write) into that directory. I killed the cron daemon (crond) and restarted the daemon simply typing 'crond' or 'crond -b'. Everything looks fine, except for one thing... In the '/var/spool/cron/crontab/root' I have, for example, a line which does a 'sync' every 5 minutes. The problem is that every 5 minutes I get a line on the screen, announcing me that 'sync' was started by root at **:**:**, with the pid ***. It didn't happen before, and the output of 'sync' is redirected to > '/dev/null'. If I remove '/var/spool/cron/crontab/bgd', and restart the daemon as I did before, everything is fine again... Now my question is: can every user have a entry in the crontab, and if so, what did I do wrong? Have fun, bogdan
