dwain wrote:
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
It's there until you actually save the changes. And it's the semi-colon
key, not the colon as I said (my mistake). Hit shift, then the colon,
semi-colon, and it will save the file.
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