> -----Original Message-----
> From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org
> [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Nick Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:42 PM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Mandrake Experts?
>
>
>
> > I'd like to learn how to configure/remove cron tasks (every 15 minutes
> > all directories in /home get a chmod 700, I'd like to stop that),
>
> This is due to "msec". You can edit /var/lib/msec/security.conf
> if you want to
> change the behavior of msec; change  CHECK_PERMS=yes to no. Or
> you can just
> stop msec from running by removing it from the cron.* dirs if you want to.
>
> If you actually want to edit the crontjobs.. you need to look at
> /etc/crontab
> and root's crontab.
>
> man crontab
>

Or, alternately, run/install webmin (which comes with Mandrake), and do it
from there, via an easy-for-me-at-least-to-use graphics interface with the
crontab, among many other things.