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["Paul Miles" <paul.miles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The script works fine but I can't get cron to run the script which is
> called backup and is in /usr/bin/backup.  Would the syntax be
> something like this to run at 7.00 p.m. at night ? ...
>
> 14 0 * * * root /usr/bin/backup

try :

bash> crontab -u root -e
0 19 * * * /usr/bin/backup

This will run backup at 7pm every night as user root.

Kind regards,

Paul Miles
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ibbotson" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:52 PM
Subject: [SLE] Cron


> Hi
>
> I'm trying to understand the syntax for a cron job that I'd like to
> run once a day.   I've put a script into /usr/bin which will create a
> tape archive once a day and then drop it into a CD with CD-Record.
>
> The script works fine but I can't get cron to run the script which is
> called backup and is in /usr/bin/backup.  Would the syntax be
> something like this to run at 7.00 p.m. at night ? ...
>
> 14 0 * * * root /usr/bin/backup
>
> Probably not but some help would be welcome.  Read the man pages and
> other docs.   Didn't make a lot of sense to me.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> --
> Richard
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