Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)

["G.T.Smith" <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Magnus Boman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:54 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote:
>   
>> John Andersen wrote:
>>     
[Stuff deleted]
>>>>  *you can make it as an executable file, called "rootcron" in directory:
>>>>
>>>> *   /var/spool/cron/tabs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *then, execute :
>>>>
>>>> *   /var/spool/cron/tabs/crontab rootcron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * . . . and your executable file rootcron will be installed as your new
>>>> *crontab named "root" in the file :
>>>>
>>>> *    /var/spool/cron/tabs/root
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  *[ I believe  :)             ]
>>>>     
>>>>         
>> Surely some mistake here, the root cron file in the example would have
>> to executed to so needs execute rights :-) ...  To be honest reply is a
>> bit ambiguous..., but the original suggestion is wildly off the mark ...
>>     
>
> Ehh..? What are you considering "original suggestion" here?
>   
The marked(*) section ...to expand ...  the /var/spool/cron/tabs
directory is where crontab normally stores the cron  tables for
individual users, which is correct to a point. (there is also the system
crontab .. /etc/crontab. You do not need put stuff there directly. 
/var/spool/cron/tabs/crontab <file> command is a nonsense, the
/var/spool directory structure is a spool directory and should not
contain executables and the command will not run anyway....  rootcron
should be a cron table definition not the script to be executed ...
>   
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
>   

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