[plug] VNC Shell Script

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Sun Nov 7 17:36:44 WST 2004


James Devenish wrote:
> > > That looks a little unusual.

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > It looks about right for an /etc/crontab file, although not for a
> > per-user crontab.

Brock Woolf wrote:
> I wouldn't know what the difference would be?
> What is unusual about it

Quoting 'man 5 crontab':

       [...]  The  system  crontab  (/etc/crontab)
       uses  the same format, except that the username for the command
       is specified after the time and date fields and before the com-
       mand. The fields may be separated by spaces or tabs.

See also this message from a few months ago -
    http://www.plug.org.au/archives/message/20040727.115433.4e63c5ef.html

Cameron.



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