Cron problem with 6.06

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:35:32PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 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.

Fine, fine. I've only messed with /etc/crontab, and I added the
disclaimer that I'm not an expert. Thanks for pointing this out,
though.

Mike