In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Keeline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >--- 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).
That appears to be the case. As I log on with my own username, then I will set up a Cron under my own name, and see how it goes. I have difficulties with "ownerships" and "rights", and figuring out whose is whose. -- Pete Clark Sunny Andalucia http://hotcosta.com/Andalucia.Spain
