cron solved
George,
Thanx for your explaination. I read the man 5 cron manpage (I ran man 5
cron) and understood that you have to use (better to do so) the -u option.
My problem was that I want to 'load' and 'unload' a firewall rule
periodically. iptables runs (kernel 2.4.18) under root, so I had to edit
crontab for root.
From my experience with AIX (IBM-UNIX) I always run crontab -e being
the user I have to change for, root for the root crontable. This is how
I got puzzled by Debian and did not really find a solution in the
manpages for editing cron for root. For other users the manpage is
sufficient. Or did I miss the hints for root? I read man crontab, man 1
cron, man 5 cron. However the 'root-solution' I found on an internet-site.
And I think again, Debian is a very good Linux-flavour, but most of the
time it is hard to find good documentation for this flavour. Or is there??
Anyway, thanks hor your explaination. It opened my eyes a little more.
Frank.
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