Crontab

Eris Caffee eris-redhat-list at eldalin.com
Mon Aug 29 13:31:07 UTC 2005


> And, for your command, I think the place where you are doing wrong, is
> that you don't specify what user you want the command to run into... Just
> log in as root, and set the cron, it will run with root privileges only...

Right.  You only have to specify the user if you are adding the cron entry
to /etc/crontab or one of the files in /etc/cron.d.  Individual user
crontabs (edited with the "crontab -e" command) don't need to have the
user specified.

Eris Caffee





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