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| 1$FreeBSD$ | 1$Id: CONVERSION,v 2.2 1993/12/28 08:34:43 vixie Exp $ |
| 2 3Conversion of BSD 4.[23] crontab files: 4 5Edit your current crontab (/usr/lib/crontab) into little pieces, with each 6users' commands in a different file. This is different on 4.2 and 4.3, 7but I'll get to that below. The biggest feature of this cron is that you 8can move 'news' and 'uucp' cron commands into files owned and maintainable 9by those two users. You also get to rip all the fancy 'su' footwork out 10of the cron commands. On 4.3, there's no need for the 'su' stuff since the 11user name appears on each command -- but I'd still rather have separate | 2 3Conversion of BSD 4.[23] crontab files: 4 5Edit your current crontab (/usr/lib/crontab) into little pieces, with each 6users' commands in a different file. This is different on 4.2 and 4.3, 7but I'll get to that below. The biggest feature of this cron is that you 8can move 'news' and 'uucp' cron commands into files owned and maintainable 9by those two users. You also get to rip all the fancy 'su' footwork out 10of the cron commands. On 4.3, there's no need for the 'su' stuff since the 11user name appears on each command -- but I'd still rather have separate |
| 12crontabs with separate environments and so on. | 12crontabs with seperate environments and so on. |
| 13 14Leave the original /usr/lib/crontab! This cron doesn't use it, so you may 15as well keep it around for a while in case something goes wakko with this 16fancy version. 17 18Most commands in most crontabs are run by root, have to run by root, and 19should continue to be run by root. They still have to be in their own file; 20I recommend /etc/crontab.src or /usr/adm/crontab.src. --- 65 unchanged lines hidden --- | 13 14Leave the original /usr/lib/crontab! This cron doesn't use it, so you may 15as well keep it around for a while in case something goes wakko with this 16fancy version. 17 18Most commands in most crontabs are run by root, have to run by root, and 19should continue to be run by root. They still have to be in their own file; 20I recommend /etc/crontab.src or /usr/adm/crontab.src. --- 65 unchanged lines hidden --- |