Re: [tlug] when crontab doesn't cron or tab

["Luke Kearney" <lukek@example.com>]

Sorry Tony,
almost read your post to the very bottom, umm good resources for the syntax
for cron is obviously the manual which atleast on FBSD I thought went
through the syntax well and also the FreeBSD online handbook available
through the website.

Cheers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke Kearney" <lukek@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] when crontab doesn't cron or tab


> All users can have a crontab but the main system crontab is really only
> available to root. So depending on what you are wanting to do ie run some
of
> your own scripts as long as they don't require  special privelges should
be
> able to run under your own user crontab.
>
> A really easy way to determine this is simply to type crontab -e at the
> command and see if that does not open an editor for you. If perchance the
> admin has restricted access to cron you will have a devil of a time trying
> to install a cron job.
>
> L
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Laszlo" <laszlo@example.com>
> To: <tlug@example.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:55 PM
> Subject: [tlug] when crontab doesn't cron or tab
>
>
> > This is on that same shell on the remote FreeBSD box,
> > the one that I am now using bash with (much better!).
> > I have only user access.
> >
> > Is there a way to determine whether or not I
> > have access to the crontab?
> >
> > I was able to add a line in crontab with the command
> > crontab -e , and to confirm that the line exists with
> > crontab -l
> >
> > So far, however, I am not getting the desired result.
> > That may be because my syntax is off...but maybe not.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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