On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:13:48AM +1200, G. M. Bodnar wrote:
> needs to be (depending on how you're doing your backups). This can be
> put in /etc/crontab as a user entry or use "sudo backup; crontab -e".
I'll just elaborate on that... people are aware, that /etc/crontab is
special in that it has an extra field?
from crontab(5)
EXAMPLE SYSTEM CRON FILE
This has the username field, as used by /etc/crontab.
...
# This file also has a username field, that none of the other
# crontabs do
...
42 6 * * * root run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
etc etc.
(I also think that using run-parts, as Debian does, is quite elegant. makes
for a small crontab, and doesnt get ruined by other applications needing to
add cronjobs... they just drop a script in the relevant directory... (or
/etc/cron.d, where a crontab style file can be placed - Which also accept
the username field)
Mike.
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