crontab file format?

Michael Hipp Michael
Mon May 17 12:02:09 PDT 2004


Bruce Marshall wrote:

> Uhhh...   I've never known of a parm of 'root'  but if it were allowed in a 
> user crontab, I sure would think that would be a *HUGE* security hole.

Well, sure, but not if the user happens to be 'root'.

But like I said, that param is in every /etc/crontab I've ever looked 
at. I would hope crond would be smart enough to ignore it.

Michael



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