22 Jan
2004
22 Jan
'04
18:15
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:00, Martin Mielke wrote:
Hi,
OK, I get the theory now. That makes sense since the box would have to be logged in as root to run a root cron job if my theory were correct.
Again, the user, no matter if root or not, must not be logged on for crond to execute their crontab.
That is not true. You need -not- be logged in for your crontab to run. Take a look at your /var/log/messages and look at how many messages there are regarding cron jobs run by root when root was not logged in. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)