On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:06:27AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I editted /etc/crontab, and it had no effect - I take it I have to run > crontab as a certain user to implement the changes.
You should be able to add things to /etc/crontab and have them run. Is cron running? Note that the format of /etc/crontab is slightly different to a user's crontab - there's an extra field which is the username that the command is run as. > Which user's crontab is /etc/crontab, or what steps do I need to take to > implement changes applied to /etc/crontab? /etc/crontab is the system's crontab, not a particular user's. The users' crontabs are in /var/spool/cron (but don't edit them directly). Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
