freebsd-doc Digest, Vol 331, Issue 4

[Matthew Seaman]

Johan Kuuse wrote:

> The crontab examples itself has an incorrect syntax:

not necessarily so:
 
> BAD (current example):
> @daily                                  root freebsd-update cron

This is correct for use in /etc/crontab

> Working example:
> @daily                                  /usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron

while this one is correct for use in a per-user crontab file managed by
crontab(1), and stored in /var/cron/tabs/username

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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