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Re: [ts-7000] Re: cron on 7250

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: cron on 7250
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:16:59 +0100 (BST)

> OK , I found out if I put the crontab in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
> root I do get the job run , so the basic function is there. It's
> config problem.

Also known as standard cron - see previous post :-)

> AFAIKT this is specific user crontabs , this is run if I log in as
> root.

No it's run if the system is running cron. ALL the user crontabs are run as 
their respective user by the system whether or not they are logged in.

> What I was trying for was a system wide crontab that would get
> run on boot.
>
> I believed that was /etc/crontab by default.
>
> It seems not.
>
>
>

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