Re: Crontab problem with backup

At 02:33 AM 4/17/06, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:

> > >That is a BSD-ism.
> > Not true. A username column is included in /etc/crontab on both Linux and
> > BSD systems.
>
>Not true.
>
>Not in Dillon's Cron (the one that comes with Slackware) ...
>And there's not even an /etc/crontab file, to begin with.

Thanks, I suppose I have not exposed myself to enough Linux
distros. Before this morning, I was not aware there were a number of
different cron packages available on Linux.

vixie-cron (used by SuSE) supports the username column in /etc/crontab

On OpenBSD, there is not a /etc/crontab "to begin with"; but create one
(with correct permissions) and it starts working.

I've used MDK and RH, but didn't use /etc/crontab on those systems.

Frank