ill try if you want to something to run every hour or day or week or month, just write a little script and put it in /etc/cron.daily or /etc/cron.hourly, etc. the script can be anything, say if you want to set your system time via ntp every day, just do this echo "ntpdate -b -s some.ntp.server" > /etc/cron.daily/settime.cron chmod 700 /etc/cron.daily/settime.cron now, if you want to do things every minute or every 12 minutes or every 3rd monday or something like that, you will use the crontab file /etc/crontab the syntax for crontab entries are like * * * * * /path/to/script/to/run where the *'s represent minute of hour hour of day day of month month day of week or i think thats how it goes so if you want to run a script every 10 minutes, you could do something like * */10 * * * root /home/dog/myscript.sh On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Ray Booysen wrote:
Is there anyone who can help me understand how to use cron to do events at certain times.
Thanks Ray Booysen
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