crontab

[Derek Broughton]

Ian L. Target wrote:

> After some more googling, I found that some web pages say there should
> be a file call cron.allow located at
> /var/adm/cron/cron.allow and another web page says it should be located
> at /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow.  Neither of those locations exist.  I have
> a /usr/lib/ but no /usr/lib/cron.  I don't have a /var, but no /var/adm/.
> 
> Where /should/ the cron.allow file be located?

On Ubuntu (rtfm, for heaven's sake - why google for something that's already 
on your own system!) it's /etc/cron.allow - and it SHOULDN'T exist, unless 
you really want to stop users using their own crontabs.
-- 
derek