2004-10-28 kl. 12.00 skrev Zafer Aydogan:

> Hej Newsgroup,
>
> yes it works :) ( with the asterix )
>
> But i'm a little bit confused, because it works only as a user cron.
> I tested it as root, but that was not working for somehow.

Were you perhaps trying it in /etc/crontab?
It has a slightly different format.
Try
*/5 * * * * root command
if you want to run something as root from there.
Ofc root aslo has its own crontab (accessible with crontab -e)
which should work the way you first described.
-- 
Pelle Johansson
<morth@morth.org>