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Minor whitespace fix
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Denis Peplin 2004-06-08 11:41:49 +00:00
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<filename>crontab</filename> files store information about specific
functions which <command>cron</command> is supposed to perform at
certain times.</para>
<para>The <command>cron</command> utility uses two different
types of configuration files, the system crontab and user crontabs. The
only difference between these two formats is the sixth field. In the
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as any user. In a user crontab, the sixth field is the command to run,
and all commands run as the user who created the crontab; this is an
important security feature.</para>
<note>
<para>User crontabs allow individual users to schedule tasks without the
need for root privileges. Commands in a user's crontab run with the
permissions of the user who owns the crontab.</para>
<para>The root user can have a user crontab just like
<para>The <username>root</username> user can have a user crontab just like
any other user. This one is different from
<filename>/etc/crontab</filename> (the system crontab). Because of the
system crontab, there's usually no need to create a user crontab
for root.</para>
for <username>root</username>.</para>
</note>
<para>Let us take a look at the <filename>/etc/crontab</filename> file