Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)

[dwain <dwain.alford@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 20:55, John Andersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2007, G.T.Smith wrote:
> > > There is no reason to make it executable.
> > > Any text file will do.  It can be located anywhere.
> > >  
> >
> > 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 ...
>
> No the root cron file is not executable.
> Nor it is executed.
> It is merely read by cron and the tasks listed therein are performed
> per schedule.
>
> man cron
> man crontab

I just signed in as root and did crontab -e and there was the code.  it says 
it's in the tmp/crontab directory.  Is this correct?

BTW, thanks for the information.

Dwain
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