On Friday 08 October 2004 9:29 am, Donald D Henson wrote:
(SuSE 9.1, Gnome 2.4, kernal 2.6.5-7.108-default)
I used kcron to set up a nightly backup but it doesn't work. I've run the crontab entry manually and the command works ok. The SuSE manual says that crontab is now located in /var/cron but that directory doesn't exist. Kcron, as it turns out, is saving the crontab in the /etc directory. An obvious solution is to create /var/cron and then move crontab from the /etc directory to /var/cron. My CLI skills are pretty weak so I would like someone to confirm that the "obvious solution" is the correct thing to do. Any assistance here will be appreciated.
You might want to execute the crontab command directly. You didn't say whether you were doing a systemwide backup or a individual-user backup. Crontab works in either case, but the files it uses might be different. You shouldn't need to manipulate any system files if you're using the crontab command as an individual user. What I do is to build a personal crontab table, ~/mycrontab, and install it using the command crontab ~/mycrontab I then check the installation with crontab -l Paul Abrahams