Cron problem with 6.06

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Tue Jun 27 19:35:32 UTC 2006


Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
>> Where is the user? Usually crontab entries look like...
>> 
>> m h dom mon dow user command
> 
> Not so. That's what the global crontab (/etc/crontab) looks
> like, but user-specific crontabs (the ones you edit by
> running 'crontab -e') don't need a user specified within
> them; they run as the user who owns them.

Actually, with normal user crontabs, there MUST NOT be a user
"column"/"specification". If there were one, it would be interpreted
as the command name.

Alexander Skwar
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