--- Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are they cron jobs for your specific user or are they system-wide ones? > > Does it matter? I suppose that they are system wide ones. They update > certain files once a day.
The detail I was getting at was that there may be some crontabs for your login user (pete), some as the webserver user (apache?), and then others which are stored in /etc/cron.daily (and similar directories on a Linux machine). So cron actions can exist in several locations on the system. Once added, the user crontabs are usually stored in the /var/spool/cron directory for each user (requires root access to view). > >Also, user crontabs depend on the individual machine. If your host has > >multiple machines, say one for SVN but another for the Apache/MySQL then > that could be an explanation. > > one dedicated server OK. Just considering possibilities. > >When you are logged in to that server can you see your PHP scripts and other > >web files? > > yes, and of course I can wander below (above?) the root folder, into the > non-public areas. > > >You may need to check with your sysadmin to find out how they have this set > up. > > I was hoping to figure it out for myself... <G> > -- > Pete Clark If you don't have a crontab defined for the user the usual behavior is something like this: $ crontab -e no crontab for jkeeline - using an empty one I guess it is possible for a configuration to deny individual user crontabs. You could define a crontab in a text file (a good idea anyways in my opinion) and then read it into the crontab command: vim mycrontab crontab mycrontab What version of Linux and any known management software is used on this system? James
