[expert] cron confusion

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Hello. I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have a file /etc/crontab that contains this: start % cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts

Re: [expert] cron confusion

2000-04-29 Thread Matt Stegman
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have a file /etc/crontab that contains this: % cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash sets the default shell for the cronjobs to bash. PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin sets the default path for

Re: [expert] cron confusion

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Matt Stegman wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have a file /etc/crontab that contains this: % cat /etc/crontab [snip] # run-parts this is a comment :) 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * *

Re: [expert] cron confusion

2000-04-29 Thread Christopher Cox
/RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per day, but the rest of us have day jobs kids... RANT RANT I find it

Re: [expert] cron confusion - rant

2000-04-29 Thread Gavin Clark
From: "Christopher Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] /RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per day, but the rest of us have

Re: [expert] cron confusion - rant

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Gavin Clark wrote: From: "Christopher Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] /RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per