On Tuesday 10 April 2007 20:03, Magnus Boman wrote:

Dwain,

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 19:52 -0500, dwain wrote:

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Subject: Re: [opensuse] writing a crontab and don't know where to put it Date: Tuesday 10 April 2007 02:14 From: Magnus Boman To: opensuse@opensuse.org

Yhea, it's good fun to be able to control the OS instead of the OS controlling you :-)

Kind of, but I can't create the cron tab with: crontab -e 27 4,16 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron

When I did a crontab ls -l it returned no crontab for root. When I do crontab -e it appears to open an editor. I paste the above code it doesn't add the numbers or "*". I also find no way to save the crontab.

You are suppose to type (as root); "crontab -e" (without the quotes), then hit enter. This will start the VI editor with root's crontab. You then press INSERT and then type;

27 4.16 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl

Then hit enter, hit ESCAPTE, then type;

:wq (then hit ENTER)

Or simply go with the "ln -s" line that I wrote in another email. It'll put them in the system's crontab.

Here's what I got when I input like you said. What am I doing wrong? crontab -e no crontab for root - using an empty one crontab: installing new crontab What does this mean? Do I need to repeat the operation again? Having more fun than a human being should have. Dwain -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art"

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 20:53, Pueblo Native wrote:

dwain wrote:

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Here's what I got when I input like you said. What am I doing wrong?

crontab -e no crontab for root - using an empty one crontab: installing new crontab

What does this mean? Do I need to repeat the operation again?

Having more fun than a human being should have. Dwain

NO! You should have a bunch of tildes (that's "~" symbol going down the left hand side of your screen. Hit the insert button. You should see "--INSERT--" on the lower left corner of your screen. type in that stuff, hit enter, then hit escape, the semi-colon key, and then type "wq" Simple

That's exactly what I did and the above is what the konsole spit out upon hitting the enter key after typing :wq. oops, I hit the colon key. must be the resolution of my monitor making the 2 look alike. I'll try it again. Dwain -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art"

On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

dwain wrote:

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Please help me tame this snarling beast so I can update automatically f-prot.

Did you check out kdesu kcron? As mentioned, you can run it via Run Command from a right click on the Desktop, or type in kdesu kcron in a terminal window. Try it, you will like it. It makes it very easy to handle cron without learning 10 different editors. :-)

-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64

I got the error message kcron command not found. I looked in software management and searched for kcron with no results. I don't understand. Now what? Dwain -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art"

On Thursday 12 April 2007 00:43, M Harris wrote:

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 I got the error message kcron command not found.  I looked in software management and searched for kcron with no results.  I don't understand.  Now what?

        hi dwain,

        ... its in package  kdeadmin3 search for the package in software management

... comes with a very nice handbook... although its intuitive. (be sure to save the crontab, and be sure that your crond is running, or it won't work) -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

dwain schrieb:

I got the error message kcron command not found. I looked in software management and searched for kcron with no results. I don't understand. Now what?

Dwain

Well dwain, concerning cronjobs; I'll make it for you IMO the most easy way possible: wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.340-1.noarch.... rpm -i webmin-1.340-1.noarch.rpm https://localhost:10000/ login: root password: well you know that one better Then hit 'System' >> 'Cronjobs' Set the cronjobs at your wishes. Enjoy Thx Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org