You can always add a line to /etc/crontab/, which will then run as root. You have to restart the computer or cron afterwards, I believe. Beware of typing mistakes while running as root. You may have a unscheduled scheduled reinstall! :)

If you don't have to run as root, then the personal crontab is a much better and less dangerous way to go.

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You do not have to restart anything after modifying /etc/crontab. The cron process reads the /etc/crontab file (along with the various user crontab files) each minute to see if anything needs to run. For more information, check out the cron and crontab man pages.

-Mark

Cool, thanks for the info, Mark.

Rachel

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