-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:22 AM Subject: On the subject of ntpdate...
>What's wrong with this picture? > >Here is root's crontab: > >10 3 * * * ntpdate ntp.public.otago.ac.nz >10 3 * * * touch ~ame/rootwashere Now if ~ means the home directory of the current user, and cron runs as root, isn't ~ame/rootwashere going to expand to /rootame/rootwashere? Wayne
